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International Women's Day

Beyond Rhetorics

Navine Murshid
***Women blame men for ndt giving them what they deserve. But what are they doing for themselves? ***
WOMEN'S Day Is here once again. Yet. the age-old story of discrimination against women still holds true. The underlying reason behind (his Is that the wrong people are screaming for women's rights: people who are hardly affected.
These people -- a section of ■ elite women detached from the majority of the women -- are really not bothered about women’s rights. IP hardly matters to them whether the girl next door gets her due or not. It Is deplorable that today 'gender Issues' is one of the hot topics' and anybody who wants fast fame and recognition is selling this. And succeeding! Women s problems should not be esoteric. it should be a principle everyone can understand, a point everyone can talk about. The people who are the victims of discrimination must be able to speak up for justice to be done. Allowing the 'women's organisations' to be their spokesperson will not solve anything. The Increase in crime rates involving women bears testimony to that.
Ironically, women are the ones who mostly denounce their rights. It is women who say that they are physically and mentally weaker. They are the fairer' sex and they take pride in being oh-so-fraglle. It is the mother who gives her son the bigger platter; the grandmother who says the best place for a girl is at home. It is Ironic how a woman publicly talks of females not being allowed to work outside the home and comes home to ask her daughter-in-law why the food hasn't been laid. It is the 'fighting women' who say that womens rights are not applicable in the Bangladesh context; women who denounce girls who have been sexually assaulted. An MP spoke about Badhan, the girl who was assaulted on New Year's eve. in derogatory terms, blaming her for the whole episode. The women MPs present during the 'speech' did not utter a word.
The women blame men for not giving them what they deserve. But what are they doing for themselves? It is high time that woynen realise ; that
screaming and shouting bring no result If the hues and cries were really heeded, then why arc there so many Tanias and Bad hans out there? Why have the women's organisations not been able to do anything about the Increase in crimes involving even the basic of human rights? True, there have been processions. there have been high-sounding speeches, but what did not become a reality is a decline in rape-related offences or other violences against women.
This is the time of action, of work and not speeches and processions only. People are tired of listening to what is right and wrong. Anything that hap-Eens that women do not like ecomes a violation of their rights. These things are trivial when the context is so big; when even the basic rights of a woman cannot be provided. True, there Is a lot of publicity involved, but in the long-run. nothing is achieved. Everything remains as it was and the women activists keep doing what they arc best at -- scream-
ing
In the world of competition and progress, women nave to come forward, not because they are women, but because they hold right qualifications. What the women activists want to achieve seems to be a bias towards them when opportunities are given. And to a certain extent. they are accomplishing this. The numerous 'job opportunity' adverts reading females are encouraged to apply are examples of their feats’.
Women do not need a day in tribute to themselves to establish their rights. If women want equality and equity seen to be done, then the key to it would be hard work and commitment. First of all. they should prove to themselves that they have the same capability as the males of society. Only then can they prove it to others as well. Quality and good work always speak for itself. The women do not have to publicise their aptitude for doing things. What they do have to do is to talk a little less and let their actions speak for it.