{"id":200184,"date":"2022-08-16T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200184"},"modified":"2022-08-16T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T13:46:07","slug":"towards-an-india-where-women-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/towards-an-india-where-women-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards an India where women lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article \u201cTowards an India where women lead\u201d<\/strong> published in the Indian Express<\/strong> on 16th<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 1 <\/strong>Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: Gender Disparities; Prejudices and Discrimination<\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>Recently, the 2022 World Economic Forum\u2019s Gender Gap Index<\/strong> was released, which confirmed a number of gender-based inequalities in India.<\/p>\n

The Findings<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In 2021, India\u2019s overall score has improved from 0.625 to 0.629. This is the seventh-highest score <\/strong>in the last 16 years.<\/p>\n

India will now take 132 years to reach gender parity.<\/p>\n

What are the causes of concern related to the inclusion of women in India, even after 75 years of Independence?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Indian women have not been able to secure for themselves equality<\/strong> and equity<\/strong> in various spheres of life.<\/p>\n

(1) Women\u2019s leadership in higher education and education-related decision-making bodies<\/strong> at the government level is largely absent. For example, only seven of India\u2019s 54 central universities have women vice-chancellors. This is despite girls outnumbering boys in higher education admissions and women constituting more than 50% of the entry-level university teaching positions.<\/p>\n

There are several reasons for this: <\/strong><\/h5>\n

Indian women have to perform multiple tasks. For example, marriage and family are still considered responsibilities of women.<\/p>\n

There are various social ills<\/strong> like entrenched patri<\/strong>archy and male hegemony<\/strong> in various spheres of life. Most women have to fight these social evils. Therefore, they choose not to fight as it can get dirty and time-consuming. For example, a woman\u2019s assertiveness<\/strong> is seen as aggressiveness<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In history, the valor of men who conquered cities with violence has been sung and the women\u2019s side of the story has been forgotten.<\/p>\n

What are the measures needed to realize the ambition?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

(1) Making higher education more Indo-centric<\/strong>:\u00a0 India should make an intellectual journey<\/strong> towards the creation of knowledge<\/strong> that is original and goes back to its roots. India must emancipate<\/strong> and empower<\/strong> the Indian mind by breaking the glass ceiling<\/strong> of intellectual slavery, i.e., the belief that all Western ideas are good, and anything Indian is seen as being regressive and therefore bad.<\/p>\n

(2) In history, the stories have been told from the male perspective<\/b>. Therefore, they must be re-told from a feminine perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article \u201cTowards an India where women lead\u201d published in the Indian Express on 16th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 1 Salient features of Indian Society, Diversity of India. Relevance: Gender Disparities; Prejudices and Discrimination News: Recently, the 2022 World Economic Forum\u2019s Gender Gap Index was released, which confirmed a… Continue reading Towards an India where women lead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[263,10500],"class_list":["post-200184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-1","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704623685},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}