Dual Mentality for Gender Equality

“Rainbow assumes to be pretty as well as eye-catching but only when all its color scatters at a time, absence of any color can underestimate the rainbow as well. Same logic is with the Nation, It won’t get its real image flaunted until both of its aspects i.e. male as well as female or say gender equality is prioritized.

Lebanese philosopher and diplomat, Charles Malik had once said, “The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world” but it’s nothing than our society’s worst fortune that we have been ignoring this fact and encouraging male dominant side extremely.

 Although we have reached into the most modern era i.e. 21^st century but people have still been forced to adopt the blind belief mentality that the male can only be participated for the earning of knowledge. According to them, male only have stamina to face the world as the data says women produce up to 80% of food in developing countries, but are more likely to be hungry than men, and are often denied the right to own land for their living. At a place where they are using their entire asset in male’s progression, they are basically seeding disability in adolescent girls by keeping them inside the boundary for household work, serving sex, children production etc. they are totally unaware that

It is advertised again and again that male and female are two sides of a single coin and people have artificially adopted it too. But isn’t that like under-estimating one among each sides? At the time we viewing one part, next part remains in dark.  Maybe that could be the fault our current societies have been repeating because of which gender disparity in Nepalese society has remarkable stain on it. Nepal has the lowest female literacy rate among the SAARC countries; the literacy rate of people above 6 years is 54 % among which 63 % are males and 42.5 % are females. The net enrollment rate for the males holds 86 % where females are with 74.60 %. 

Apart from all those above negative data Nepal seems to be attempting strong dedication and legal commitments to collapse gender-based violence and inequality. Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), Domestic Violence Act and a 5 year national strategy and action plan has been assembled into execution to minimize gender based violence. 

But instead of full stop upon this issue, the merciful outcome has been grossed.

They say women can be better made feel dependent in familiar surrounding but the fact behind this survey can broaden one’s eyes.  86% women are unsafe in their own community. 7% of women (out of 1581 survivors) have been raped. 59% of women are raped from intimate relationship and 8% of it is incest. Females of 26-53 years are at the greatest risk of non-fatal intimate partner violence. Out of total women killed, 91% of the women have been killed by the people they know.

Eleanor Roosevelt has also said, “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission”, so at first those adolescent girls themselves needs to stop under-estimating their strength and presence. Actually gender equality hasn't only been affected by illiterate societies and male dominant side but mostly by those females who resists these issues and not dares to loud their voice against it. 52% women suffered from mental pressure among which 78% are literate. Gender inequality can only be diminished when each of the citizens will start to recognize females with two things i.e. who and what females want?

There are lots of government as well as non-government organization working in ensuring a better future for gender inequality and women empowerment by ending the cycle of violence but the positive output is miles away. This isn't whole truth that the government isn't using capital upon it but despite of government huge investment on this sector, there is no any progress in this field, there must be some error going on. That’s why each individual should step in from their places. Some new policies be made through which some deserving specialists should be hired to detect the error and work upon it in certain time limit. Not only this much, there should be routine checkup by the other individual hired for it, just like the game CHESS where all the players are said to be safe when you keep them in care of one another. And most importantly awareness in weak side is compulsion.  

By Suresh Kumar Mukhiya