“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.
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