Widening Gender Gap In India

According to the latest global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum, it's getting even harder to be a woman in India. India has slid 21 notches down to rank 108 among 144 countries. The figures are alarming, 66% of the Indian women workforce is unpaid. Not just this, according to a world bank report only 27% are part of the labour force and contribute only 17% to the country's GDP. On Agenda we ask, are we doing anything to fix this gap? From rank 87 to rank 108, what's the reason behind the steep fall. Watch full video: https://www.ndtv.com/video/shows/agen... NDTV is one of the leaders in the production and broadcasting of un-biased and comprehensive news and entertainment programmes in India and abroad. NDTV delivers reliable information across all platforms: TV, Internet and Mobile.

How will we know when we have gender equality?

People often argue that most Western societies have achieved gender equality – women have all the same legal rights as men, and workplace discrimination based on gender is illegal.

So what do we mean when we talk about gender equality, and how will we know when we have it?

Equal mean identical???

No.One might object that there are meaningful differences between males and female. Someone believe that equality is the wrong word to use, because males and females can’t be equal if they are different.

But when feminists refer to gender equality, we are not arguing that males and females are identical or indistinguishable on all behaviour, preferences and abilities. Nor does it mean all gender differences must be eliminated, or that we must have equal gender representation in every field.

 Gender equality doesn’t mean we must have a 50:50 balance of men and women in every profession purely for the sake of equal representation.

 Gender equality also does not mean that males and females must always be treated the same. Given the existence of biological sex differences, it is reasonable for males and females to have different legal rights in some instances. For example, only females can ever require maternity leave specifically for pregnancy and birth.

In cases such as these, what is required is not equal treatment, but equitable treatment. Equity means recognising that differences in ability mean that fairness often requires treating people differently so that they can achieve the same outcome. At times equity is necessary to achieve gender equality, but there are many instances where this is not the case.

 So if gender equality does not mean that males and females must be identical or always require the same treatment in order to achieve fairness, what does it mean?

Gender equality is seeing males and females as being of equal status and value. It is judging a person based on their merit, and not viewing them as inferior or superior purely based on their gender.

Equal rights are not enough. Inequality exists in our minds, in our biases and prejudices, and that remains to be fixed.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.

                                                                             -Sana Sheikh

Office buzz:- Gender Equality

With Women’s Day around the corner, there is a lot of buzz around gender equality. On March 1, New Delhi will play host to the second edition of the Gender Equality Summit, hosted by Global Compact Network India (GCNI), a local arm of United Nations Global Compact, New York. The theme for this year is: ‘Preparing women for the future of work’ — which revolves around the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its allied mechanisms — and it will look at how Governments, private sector, not-for-profits and communities at large can contribute towards building a safer workplace and an empowering culture. The objective is to provide equal opportunity to women, and for their effective participation at the workplace. The Summit also aims at building a clear roadmap towards gender equality at workplaces in India.

Best workplaces for women

Diversity and Inclusion pioneer Avtar group jointly with Working Mother, a global gender parity champion,is inviting nominations from companies for the 4th Edition of its flagship survey Best Companies for Women in India (BCWI). This time around, the study also has a new addition — it will address other strands of inclusion through a new Most Inclusive Companies in India (MICI) index. It will focus on other aspects of diversity such as People with Disabilities, LGBTQ, Generations and Culture, with a specific focus on language.

The previous three editions of the Best Companies for Women study saw participation of over 350 companies, with millions of data points. According to Saundarya Rajesh, Founder-President of Avtar Group, “The past three years of the BCWI have seen a diametric change in the focus of companies on women’s advancement.”

Is gender equality rational ?

So starting of with the blog which says gender equality on the top but don't talk about gender equality in real .


In this blog i really want to address this issue in a philosophical sense and this isn't going to be another blog which talk about women equality and they should have a fair share.
First we got to understand that what do we really mean when we talk about gender equality are we talking about the genders fare share or are we saying that every gender should be treated equally?


If we mean that all genders meaning (male and female) in general are equal that itself is an insult. Its so crazy to think equality means treating everybody the same that's injustice treating everybody the same that's injustice.
Equality is treating the same people the same or people in the same context the same and it also means that you may have to treat different people differently.


Like for example we have social structure that are different for male and female like we don't have the same toilet that doesn't mean we aren't treating them equally. Like the babies the mother the father everybody have different needs right? Whether we like it or not that's a fact.


If you study psychology there are modules in psychology called individual differences there are gender differences whether you like it or not these are correlation. How can you treat two different things exactly the same that's injustice that's oppression right ?.
But if we talk about fair share for everybody then it's right say that men or women should not be priortize over one another but in some aspect where there is really a need of some kind of ability.


On concluding note,
‌God made us equal in the sense that he gave 80 marks out of 100 in total to both male and female but he gave 8 marks on question 1 to male and 6 to female or vice versa making it an equal total of 80 to both.


when i say men and women aren't equal i didn't mean that men is greater over women or women to men cause they weren't meant to be.

                                        -Mohammed Muzzammil

Duty Bound To Uphold Constitution: Kerala Governor On Sabarimala Issue

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: 

Kerala Governor P Sathasivam on Friday said that the state government has upheld constitutional values and gender equality and embraced the values of secularism and pluralism in every walk of social life.

"It is worth mentioning that my government has stood for gender equality, social justice and the dignity of the toiling masses," the Governor said while reading his address in the Assembly.

"It has scaled further heights in ushering in an era of enlightenment by rekindling the lights of renaissance and inculcating a new sense of oneness in the minds of emerging generations," he said.

Also launching a broadside against the Centre, he pointed out that time and again it had been pointed out that the imbalance caused by the detrimental effects of unhealthy Centre-State relations in general and fiscal relations in particular had put Kerala at a great disadvantage in furthering the advances it has made in several sectors.

"So, my government seeks a total restructuring of the Centre-State relations, in such a way that it will enrich both the Centre and the State.

"It is rather unfortunate that the State has been 'penalised' for achievements it made in various fields... The State is at a loss to understand the criteria with which it is deprived of its rightful share in the amount earmarked for these sectors.

"Our gains should not be a reason for the losses that we currently have to bear," added the Governor.

On gender justice, Governor Sathasivam said the Supreme Court had ordered that preventing the entry of women in a particular age group to the Sabarimala temple was unconstitutional.

"My government is duty bound to implement the judgment and uphold our Constitution. The various events that followed underlines the urgent need to carry forward the progressive values of the renaissance movement," said Governor Sathasivam, himself a retired Chief Justice of the top court.

The present session of the Kerala Assembly will last nine days.News from NDTV India.

Gender Equality In Education?

Gender equality is a global priority for UNESCO and inextricably linked to its efforts to promote the right to education and support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Through the Education 2030 Framework for Action, SDG 4 aims to ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’ and SDG 5 to ‘Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.’The Education 2030 agenda recognizes that gender equality requires an approach that ‘ensures that girls and boys, women and men not only gain access to and complete education cycles, but are empowered equally in and through education.’Large gender gaps exist in access, learning achievement and continuation in education in many settings, most often at the expense of girls, although in some regions boys are at a disadvantage.  Despite progress, more girls than boys still remain out of school - 16 million girls will never set foot in a classroom (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) - and women account for two thirds of the 750 million adults without basic literacy skills. 

Poverty, geographical isolation, minority status, disability, early marriage and pregnancy, gender-based violence, and traditional attitudes about the status and role of women, are among the many obstacles that stand in the way of women and girls fully exercising their right to participate in, complete and benefit from education.

For Every Parents....?

Gender equality, also known as sexual equality, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing different behaviors, aspirations and needs equally, regardless of gender.Whether its boy or girl everyone has a right to take proper education.This Video is regarding initiative for gender equality.
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