It has been a week or thereabouts since the president of India accorded his assent to the much touted, vaunted and eagerly awaited supposedly stringent anti rape Law, but has the passing of this law or it's coming into being really changed the status of women on the ground??????
Certainly not, if women right activists in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad are to be believed; if anything the passing of the law has only made the police force even more indifferent, apathetic and disinterested in the plight of the much harrowed and hapless Indian woman, they go on to say.......
Citing a couple of cases of the sheer indifference displayed by SHO's who counselled women to go back to their home and hearths and sort out domestic disputes within the confines of their families and homes, these activists say, if anything the indifference displayed by the police towards them has only grown by leaps and bounds since the new law came into existence, they opine........
For reasons best known to them, the male dominated police force has become increasingly wary of touching any woman related complaint with a bargepole, they treat the women who muster up the courage with utter contempt and sheer disdain thereby causing irrepairable damage to the psyches and aspirations of women who do find the courage within themselves to buck the current trend and wander into a police station to register their litany of woes.......
As one prominent women activist candidly says, "the mere passing of laws is definitely not going to change the status of the Indian woman or the place accorded to her in an increasingly male dominated and hegemonistic society", "the Indian woman will only be accorded her due place in society once the Indian male wakes up to her potential and realises the need to start treating his female counterpart as his equal and alter ego", she concludes............
Sensitising the middle and lower levels of the police force to the needs and sensibilities of the modern working and non working women is the crying need of the hour; the powers that be both within the government as well as the police force did make lofty claims about introducing gender sensitisation programmes in the wake or aftermath of the horrific Delhi gang rape incident.........
"We are yet to see these promises fructifying on the ground level, meanwhile a visit to a police station continues to be nothing short of a hellish experience for the long suffering Indian woman", a brave soul who ventured into a police station on more than one occasion candidly admits........
And so the thirty odd year long battle for a woman's due place in an increasingly callous, indifferent and apathetical male dominated and hegemonistic society continues.......
Certainly not, if women right activists in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad are to be believed; if anything the passing of the law has only made the police force even more indifferent, apathetic and disinterested in the plight of the much harrowed and hapless Indian woman, they go on to say.......
Citing a couple of cases of the sheer indifference displayed by SHO's who counselled women to go back to their home and hearths and sort out domestic disputes within the confines of their families and homes, these activists say, if anything the indifference displayed by the police towards them has only grown by leaps and bounds since the new law came into existence, they opine........
For reasons best known to them, the male dominated police force has become increasingly wary of touching any woman related complaint with a bargepole, they treat the women who muster up the courage with utter contempt and sheer disdain thereby causing irrepairable damage to the psyches and aspirations of women who do find the courage within themselves to buck the current trend and wander into a police station to register their litany of woes.......
As one prominent women activist candidly says, "the mere passing of laws is definitely not going to change the status of the Indian woman or the place accorded to her in an increasingly male dominated and hegemonistic society", "the Indian woman will only be accorded her due place in society once the Indian male wakes up to her potential and realises the need to start treating his female counterpart as his equal and alter ego", she concludes............
Sensitising the middle and lower levels of the police force to the needs and sensibilities of the modern working and non working women is the crying need of the hour; the powers that be both within the government as well as the police force did make lofty claims about introducing gender sensitisation programmes in the wake or aftermath of the horrific Delhi gang rape incident.........
"We are yet to see these promises fructifying on the ground level, meanwhile a visit to a police station continues to be nothing short of a hellish experience for the long suffering Indian woman", a brave soul who ventured into a police station on more than one occasion candidly admits........
And so the thirty odd year long battle for a woman's due place in an increasingly callous, indifferent and apathetical male dominated and hegemonistic society continues.......
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