One cannot just blame the country alone. The responsibility needs to begin from individuals. Although, we quite often accuse the rural areas of Nepal being partial to women; how many men in the cities actually care to educate their wives or even if they already are educated, care to send them to work? A handful of women must be working to support their aspiration but a majority does it to share the burden of their husbands to earn bread for the family and because they have no choice. Now, it’s not only men to be blamed. Women too have weakened themselves. The image of some higher-secondary level of education and getting married to a guy who can take care of her and having babies is perhaps one common “dream” in the rural and in some women of urban areas too. But what else can she do when the “image” is created in her mind when her brains barely learnt to create. I agree that a majority of women in Urban areas have now stepped into the field of business, science and glamour. But the lingering tragedy is that, Nepal is an agriculture-based country. Living in the capital might make us feel we have somehow reached forward, yet the vast rural area overshadows the gradual development. Yet its occurring at a slow pace and could take many more years to reflect, especially when a majority of “so-called” educated women like us are studying abroad are affecting the “index”. Deciding on the country’s fate rests in our hands. But until and unless, women are not taught to dream “dreams” they can’t go any further. p.s.- sorry if there are any typos or confusion....m half asleep and confused myself at present. :S