Friday 16 June 2017

Women Empowerment and Price tag for unpaid domestic work

Women Empowerment and Price tag for unpaid domestic work

Empowerment in the arena of Political, Economic, Social….
Understanding ENTITLEMENT and EMPOWERMENT – Providing opportunity to access essential needs food, shelter, education is mere ENTITLEMENT… whereas EMPOWERMENT expands beyond horizon. It cannot be provided or received. It’s like clapping the hand, two way process… Will they take that step? Watch this to understand the context….
What has been taken so far?
  1. FOOD SECURITY – food grain, essential goods – mere entitlement – life supporting – just to survive; just add EDUCATION (BBBP), HEALTH CARE FACILITIES…
  2. EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE – MGNREGA – No intention to improve the status of Women;
  3. SELF HELP GROUP – ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT – successful in few areas – delivered very few entrepreneurs and cottage industries;
  4. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION – bought many women centric issues to the light -50% in Local Government and mere 10% in PARLIAMENT – demand for women reservation goes endless;
  5. LAWS to protect from IN-LAWS – DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT and DOWRY PROHIBITION ACT (recent reality show from a TV channel projected many girls themselves claim huge SRIDHANA from the parents); What we need is not CHANGE IN LEGAL SET…. Real need is CHANGE IN MIND SET;
  6. Measure to tackle Problems outside the home – SOCIETAL PRESSURE, PREJUDICE, WORKPLACE HARRASSMENT…. STALKING, VOYEURISM…….
Still…
For anything fallen out of the sky, people started blaming it to because of PATRIARCHAL MINDSET…. Is that a conspiracy made by the male community of this country (at least for our sake not going in the global context) or any deception by the RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHIES… or whether it happened over the night? Many centuries crossed… We ended up creating a society of this kind… now our level of literacy has termed it as PATRIARCHY…. All we need is to undo the mistakes… taking it in the right direction… it cannot happen over the night…. Women community has to take that step…. Not be demanding or expressing their grief… if the EGG is broken from outside LIFE ENDS… it should be broken from INSIDE…. It gives a new life…
Firstly, is religion has anything to do?
If so why it describe GOD OF EDUCATION as wife of CREATOR, GOD OF WEALTH as wife of PROTECTOR, GOD OF VALOUR as wife of DESTROYER…. Without the former later would be impotent. Creation without knowledge, Defence without wealth, Destruction without valour Impossible. So blaming the RELGION for the SOCIAL MISHAP could not be a solution.
Secondly, Promoting Individualism?
On the lines of liberal societies, now we can see several ideas taking foot in our country – My choice, friends with benefit, living together. The ideas making the people FREE OF COMMITMENT, which is purely obnoxious to our society, increasing number of ORPHANAGE & OLD AGE HOME has its root cause here. Freaking out couldn’t be one’s choice… Contributing positively to the societies progress demand one to understand the twist and turns of its making… untangling the knot not an easy task… it demand a proper understanding of the same….
Thirdly, Poor understanding of EQUALITY, PARITY..
Rights Vs Duty – To drink, to roam, to imitate like the man which been copied from the western and destructing our health, society & economy…  Uniqueness of women withstanding the bad circumstance and raising up good human being and their by righteous society;
Want to be Respected or Liberated - Equality with men – Siraiyai vittu veliye vandhaai kiliye, siragadikkava alla seetedukkava? (Tamizh kavidhai)
Let us understand the grand global design to destroy our culture – whereby our spending is increased, consumerism is increased, materialism is increased. We have to be aware of, and beware of such designs.  We should try to understand Indian womanhood in its essence – in its real sense.
Finally, Materialist aspiration making us to evade our duty, which is disastrous to mankind… we should not forget that very materialist aspiration created a greedy society… left the other living being no place to survive… pushed the nature at the verge of destruction…
Guess you remember the STOCHASTIC THEORY?
The Same materialist aspiration and the idea of projecting MONETARY RETURN as a higher value/ measuring grade pushed the global community to talk about PRICE TAGGING UNPAID DOMESTIC WORK…
If you thing the food prepared by your mom has mere cooking ingredient and salt then you can fix a price…. What is the MONETARY VALUE for LOVE, AFFECTION, DEDICATION, and SACRIFICE….
Man managed finance - Material needs.  Woman managed minds – Emotional needs.
A family can survive a bad father, not a bad mother.
You might ask WHY PUTTING SOLE BLAME ON US? The potential is within you… Men are a perverted being… it is nature’s mistake… Women have immense potential to keep him on track…. 40 weeks of PATEINCE, PAIN OF BEARING CHILD, CHILD REARING (though could be shared by MALE COUNTER PART in the modern society… as his work location is not so far)
Also go through the proposal of ILO
Demerits of price tagging unpaid domestic works:
  1. Changing the boundless DUTY to Wage employment would denigrate family values (ending the principle of NON RECIPROCITY)
  2. It would further degrade the auspicious marriage alliance of our society, if the caring household task been valued on the lines of waged domestic labour.
  3. Such legal protection would increase litigation similar to divorce cases.
  4. Creating a Right based society will loss being RIGHTEOUS. Already we are trying out a legal provision to mandate OLDAGE CARE by their offspring.
  5. Certain values has not equivalent in the monetary basis.
Remembering very true lines from a Tamil movie….
விண்ணைப் படைத்தான், மண்ணைப் படைத்தான்,
காற்றும், மழையும், ஒளியும் படைத்தான்
பூமிக்கு அதனால் நிம்மதி இல்லை, பூமிக்கு அதனால் நிம்மதி இல்லை
சாமி தவித்தான், தாயைப் படைத்தான்
(God himself created women as a panacea for the entire problem out there in the world)
நீர் நினைத்தால், பெண் நினைத்தால், கரைகள் யாவும் கரைந்து போகக் கூடும்.
Women a real harbinger of change… (Would like to recall the dialogue by Nayanthara from Thani Oruvan movie… உன்னோட பலமே உன் பொருமை தான்… அதையே இழந்துட்டு நிக்குறியே!!!)
Women is the visible Manifestation of God – Swami Vivekananda  (Vali thaangum Valimai)
Also watch these short films & documentaries (generate your opinion for these)


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