Gender

Dastak: A campaign against gender-based violence

The problem: Gender-based violence targets 50 per cent of our society and holds back women from truly achieving their full potential. Be it a baby girl denied the right to be born, or a young girl denied schooling so that she can work at home, or a woman married off early, raped by her husband, or assaulted, taunted and teased in public. Haryana, one of the most developed states of our country, has earned the dubious distinction of a carefully fortressed patriarchal and feudal society where gender discrimination and inequality are the norms. Caste based and gender based violence, honour killings and female foeticide are regular and common occurrences here. The gender-based differences in power and resource-access, though are felt most by women, and have consequences on the quality of life of the population at large, including its economic and social life.

March 25, 2020 | 807 words | #Gender,