When attempting to create a more harmonious society, gender is a more important factor than class or income.
Being social animals of this society, we have all clearly seen how our society is slowly and gradually filling itself with all kinds of flaws. Day by day, the angst, fury and prejudice amongst hearts of people is increasing and growing uncontrollably. On one hand terrorism is finding deeper sources of nutrition for its roots and on the other hand anti-governmental riots are destroying lives of thousands of people. Poverty, discrimination and a falling economy have uprooted so many families. Though this society has multiple reasons of its failure, the biggest factor is ‘gender.’ Hence, in order to create a harmonious society, gender is a more important factor than class or income.
Gender discrimination has reached out to all fields and made its place everywhere. In fact it is increasing as a mindset of people with time rather than decreasing. It has weakened the system of political, social and economic functioning of the world. It has been prevalent in our society from even before the ruling era. It was popular in form of the ‘purdah system’ during the Mughal rule and Rajputana. Post that, the British ruled over India for almost a good 200 years. The British left India in 1947 and changed a lot about India with their departure.
What did not change was the discrimination against women in all spheres and it has been increasing ever since. This is now rising as a national issue and creating problems in all fields, at home, at work, in politics, in the economic field, sports, entertainment and media, etc. This issue with itself has fuelled the fire within a large number of rebels all over India and even abroad. One must finally understand that this can turn into a grave turning point in the history of India. We must take serious action and stop all the crimes against women. We must now take a step towards making India feel safe for girls and women. If this happens to be then we will have almost double the help than now, to make this society more harmonious for everyone. India needs a touch of safety and security for women to make them feel that they really are equal to men in eyes not only of the law, but also of the society. Class and income can later on be looked into. If women are looked upon rather than being looked down upon, this society will definitely become a much more harmonious society in almost no time.
A woman myself,
Shubhangini Shaktawat