Sir,

Women’s empowerment is needed because people are still asking us that question! Why should half of the population be left oppressed   without financial or social equality?

I have read a lot about how men are wrongly accused and how they have to suffer due to those ‘unnecessary’ ‘gender-biased’ laws, but would anybody tell me how much more than women have to suffer throughout the history and even now  , barring the few ultra rich urban women? Speaking about laws, even the so called laws haven’t recognized marital rape as an offense yet, citing sanskar!  Doesn’t that concern any of you?

And speaking about women filing fake rape cases, tell me how many rape victims were given justice in this country? It has come to a point where a girl had to die so brutally even to change the weak rape laws of this country. Still the process is excruciatingly slow. And people want those laws to go too so they can be enjoying their socially accepted privileges and feel more entitled to them.

People have to accept the reality. The era of women sitting at home, obeying men and catering to their every need is long gone. The attitude towards women has to change. We can only achieve women’s empowerment by providing certain reservations because we aren’t still there. There is still a long way to go, but I am happy to see a lot of positive changes .

Yours Truly

Pallavee  Sharma

Communicative English with Media Studies II

Patna Women’s College

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