Posted by: swaati thapa October 8, 2004
Women Right and Action in Nepal
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I feel so sorry for ppl wasting their time ny arguing on the above discussion. Here, person who is lobbying for women right is feel with so hatred and anger, she doesn' t have anything to say but stating her hatred towards men. One have to understand to get a goal one have to have a help from different parties too.On the other hand there are ppl who cannot digest real truth. They are totally on denial. One have to understand after coming to USA, she learnt how women are given equal rigths and protected by constituions. That is good she wants her fellow nepali women to enjoy same as she is having in USA. I am also onto in, definitely and I know lots of Nepali borthers are too. But having said this what i wanna say is we will be nowhere if we headbutt everytime we discuss about above subject. One has come to USA to get knowledge as it is consider most developed nation in world. So lets think about it in American way. Trying to figure out the root of problem. Solving a problem one at a time. As we know even in usa women were denied their basic rights. They didn't get what they are enjoying today all at a time. It all came one after another in an appropriate time. We know women were denied voting in usa till late 19th century, but we have that arleady so no need to do that. They started bringing bills one after another in an appropriate manner. The reason they did that cuz they want society to adapt slowly one at a time cuz if u bombard all at a time it may backfired. Here I want to give an example, to harvest a rice paddy one have to plough a field. Once u plough u have to water it but if u do excessive it will go wrong so u have to know how long n how much u need to water. Once it is done u throw a seed. It grows and once its is about half a foot tall u pull it out and stake. On the other side u will be doing same ploughinga field and watering it. Later u sew the rice paddy and time to time u nurture it and when it grows it fully than u get a rice. This mean we have to prepare our society for change and during that process we need to nurture ppl by giving hands on refreshment on policies. For me this is the time to jump start for womens' movement in Nepal cuz of the situation of nepal currently. The situation of Nepal resembles ditto as USA during World War II. As everybody who have gone to any American Schools the movement got a boost during world war II. The reason was there was a shortage of manpower in industries cuz all the man went to war. Very few men were left and factories(even military installments) were forced to hire women as a worker and women prove to be very hard worker.Once women were able to selfreliant they have choices and even society started to accept a new role of women. Once they find society is ready to change they started bringing legislation for women rights and ppl accepted it.Right now its same in nepal too men are fleeing from villages and remote bustis in fear of maobaadis and security forces. Women in those places are seeing new and revised role in thier family cuz they have to take a charge of their families even though men are the one who are earning bread n butter by working in india,or gulf countries. They have got all say in monetary purposes right now, it may not be in more cases but i have seen it during my visit in nepal this summer. If the problem continued in Nepal i can see we may have to use women workforce too may be we have to give them a job according to their skill levels but we have to do sooner or later. The chain of this events will make society to think and change. Does this meant we just wait for a right time seat back? Definitely not, we have to inutiate it. For this we need help from society, govermet and as we know society is not only made up of women it is of men too. Thats why to get a goal we have to get help from men too. Yeah during this process many men may not want to change but most of them will. The one who don;t want they will be left alone and having being left behind will force them to join to this revolution. But first we have to make ready to our society before bringing radical changes.
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