Feminism #womenpower #freedom #informatio # Nepal
With the advancement of technology, our society is changing rapidly. There are changes in the way we used to see social norms, values, our culture and everything. So, modernization have both good and bad impacts on the society .In past, our society was patriarchal and women were left to do household chores and they weren’t allowed to leave their homes .They had limited rights only. But in today's world, the situation has changed, there is gender equality which means men and women are equal and they have equal rights and duties.
Let me start with the term feminism. What feminism really is? Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements and ideologies that aim to define , establish and achieve the political, economic, personal and social equality of the sexes. There have been many feminist movements for women right. And the results of those campaigns are indeed remarkable. But the level of equalities is different in urban and rural areas. The women residing in urban areas are getting equal rights in almost all the fields. Even so, there are still the stereotypes like women's are emotionally weak and can't take the decisions properly whereas men are stone hearted and they can give judgments accurately. These are the type of discrimination working women's face daily at work.
The literacy rate of women in Nepal is only 44.5% . Now lets talk about the women residing in rural areas. In such areas illiteracy rate is high and people are poor too. Women are forced to give birth to a son. If they give birth to a girl, they are forced to conceive unless they give birth to a son. Due to a want of a son, they give many births to girls and they cannot provide food and clothes due to their economic status. Sending them to a school is near to impossible for them. Those girls are even the victim of chaupaddi pratha. Chupaddi is a tradition where girls are kept in cow shed for 13 days in their first menstruation and for 5-6 days each month for the rest of their lives. Due to such inhumane cruelty, many girls die at young age by starvation or malnutrition and bite of snakes in the cows shed . Parents marry off their daughters at an early age of 12. Early childhood is a tradition there. So, this cycle of marrying at early age, being uneducated ,performing chaupaddi pratha and being a conceiving machine to give birth to a son is repeated over and over again. A women gives birth to a girl, that girl performs all those inhumane traditions and again her daughter does the same like an never ending cycle. So, the feminist campaign along the awareness campaign should be run on the rural areas. Only running feminist campaign in urban areas wont do any progress.
Feminism has become more like a women's thing only although actually it means equality between men and women. Women have freedom to do anything they want. They can go wherever they want, do whatever they want, enjoy night life etc. Women nowadays are using feminism as their shield to complete their selfish desires. Some of the women use their rights for blackmailing men and earn money through them. There have been many cases where some women fake to be victim and entangle men in their vicious schemes. According to women's laws and rights court tend to give decision in the favor of women. There is a new stereotype that boys cannot date more than one girl while a girl can date 5 or even 10 boys at the same time. And when the guy slaps him, here comes the women right that men cannot hurt a girl physically, even though he did that as an act of his emotions and he was being. In this situation also men are wrong and women are right. Our society is changing but is this the kind of changes we are expecting??
Tell me about your thoughts on this thing. As this may not be rising problem as of now but may be a huge problem in the society in our near future.
Let me start with the term feminism. What feminism really is? Feminism is a range of social movements, political movements and ideologies that aim to define , establish and achieve the political, economic, personal and social equality of the sexes. There have been many feminist movements for women right. And the results of those campaigns are indeed remarkable. But the level of equalities is different in urban and rural areas. The women residing in urban areas are getting equal rights in almost all the fields. Even so, there are still the stereotypes like women's are emotionally weak and can't take the decisions properly whereas men are stone hearted and they can give judgments accurately. These are the type of discrimination working women's face daily at work.
The literacy rate of women in Nepal is only 44.5% . Now lets talk about the women residing in rural areas. In such areas illiteracy rate is high and people are poor too. Women are forced to give birth to a son. If they give birth to a girl, they are forced to conceive unless they give birth to a son. Due to a want of a son, they give many births to girls and they cannot provide food and clothes due to their economic status. Sending them to a school is near to impossible for them. Those girls are even the victim of chaupaddi pratha. Chupaddi is a tradition where girls are kept in cow shed for 13 days in their first menstruation and for 5-6 days each month for the rest of their lives. Due to such inhumane cruelty, many girls die at young age by starvation or malnutrition and bite of snakes in the cows shed . Parents marry off their daughters at an early age of 12. Early childhood is a tradition there. So, this cycle of marrying at early age, being uneducated ,performing chaupaddi pratha and being a conceiving machine to give birth to a son is repeated over and over again. A women gives birth to a girl, that girl performs all those inhumane traditions and again her daughter does the same like an never ending cycle. So, the feminist campaign along the awareness campaign should be run on the rural areas. Only running feminist campaign in urban areas wont do any progress.
Feminism has become more like a women's thing only although actually it means equality between men and women. Women have freedom to do anything they want. They can go wherever they want, do whatever they want, enjoy night life etc. Women nowadays are using feminism as their shield to complete their selfish desires. Some of the women use their rights for blackmailing men and earn money through them. There have been many cases where some women fake to be victim and entangle men in their vicious schemes. According to women's laws and rights court tend to give decision in the favor of women. There is a new stereotype that boys cannot date more than one girl while a girl can date 5 or even 10 boys at the same time. And when the guy slaps him, here comes the women right that men cannot hurt a girl physically, even though he did that as an act of his emotions and he was being. In this situation also men are wrong and women are right. Our society is changing but is this the kind of changes we are expecting??
Tell me about your thoughts on this thing. As this may not be rising problem as of now but may be a huge problem in the society in our near future.
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