How do we change India’s attitude towards women? How do we make it a safer place to live for women?
Any culture would tell to treat women with respect and keep her safe. That is why men were asked to do the labour work outside, while women being the delicate darling were supposed to handle the house which in itself is a bigger thing. But now the culture is demeaning to the women and treated as a sub ordinate to men with all the weird and illogical principles in the name of Indian Culture leading to no freedom to women and her safety.
In the patriarchal society, poor education is leading to an imbalance in the society. Men treat themselves to be higher authorities while women being their slave and anything they do would be treated as normal leaving no choice to the female in the society.Also in the textbooks used by various schools, the women is shown to be washing clothes, dishes and all household work whereas man the “money- maker”. This sets an idea in the children from their childhood regarding the position of the women and how they could be dominant to them
If we really want to change our society and make India a better place for women and men, we need to start it from the root.
There should be a tough education system with no biasing and also stresses on various social issues including this. Schools shouldn’t be limited to teach English but it should teach values to the students and respect to each other. It should be taught from the childhood that a girl should be able to handle herself and her problems and that she is strong enough. Guys should be taught to respect girls, not to objectify them and the feeling should be mutual. Both guys and girls should act as a support to each other rather than breaking each other down.
Not just the kids, adults too need reforming in their weird idiosyncrasy about various aspects.
The following is a very nice example of how this could benefit the society. Kenya has a higher rate of rape and sexual abuse cases of women, to overcome that problem an organization has decided to teach both guys and girls that “actual morals” of an idealistic society. They realized the main problem was with the men who thought it was OK to rape a woman and women thought nothing could be done to avoid it. Similar program or education should be provided in India instead of shushing everything
As we say charity begins at home , same is the case with this.First make male members of your family realize the fact that women are not a toy . They are worthy of everyone’s respect and no one has the right to tease them.
If every mother ans sister India will start giving this basic knowledge to her son and brother respectively ,it can being a huge change around us.
Mothers and sisters need to play a very big role , this is what I feel.
