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?
- FOOD
SECURITY – food grain, essential goods – mere entitlement – life
supporting – just to survive; just add EDUCATION (BBBP), HEALTH CARE
FACILITIES…
- EMPLOYMENT
GUARANTEE – MGNREGA – No intention to improve the status of Women;
- SELF
HELP GROUP – ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT – successful in few areas – delivered
very few entrepreneurs and cottage industries;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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:
- Changing the boundless
DUTY to Wage employment would denigrate family values (ending the
principle of NON RECIPROCITY)
- 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.
- Such legal
protection would increase litigation similar to divorce cases.
- Creating a Right
based society will loss being RIGHTEOUS. Already we are trying out a legal
provision to mandate OLDAGE CARE by their offspring.
- 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)
