Admitting the reality that we are lucky is not wrong, we don’t live in a world where our mothers and grandmothers could not make choices of their careers, but the very fact makes it more interesting that we have our basic rights and amazingly some women in the same world don’t have them too. But keeping that aside, the real problem lies in why women are not making it to the top of any profession specially politics in India. Numbers tell that very clearly.
Though Indian Political system gives powers and roles to the men and women irrespective of their gender. Many states had and have women as CM’s Sushma Swaraj as External affairs minister, Lok Sabha speaker as Sumitra Mahajan, INC President as Sonia Gandhi, Late Jayalalitha and many more need no introduction. They have played prominent and decisive roles in the politics of India.
But when we do a reality check in the grassroots of the Indian Political System we can easily find out that the role of women is limited to a vote bank only. The reality Showcase how appearances are used to facilitate the ongoing objectification of female politicians as a marketing product and devalue their reputation. In many more other cases, women are just a puppet of their husbands or other male member of the family. The picture becomes gloomy then. Women in the today’s political scenario are used as a product to attract the masses. They are not only discussed as one of the favourite topic but are also criticised and harassed a level beyond. Unknowing men, expose their chauvinism and their deep down gender biases suddenly floats. Situations like this mirror the society’s psyche about women in politics. The same women candidates are ridiculed for their physical appearances and a complete character assassination is done, whereas on the other hand, in the name of equality they are used as tool of upliftment.
Women are perpetually excluded from decision-making at every step of the ladder. According to a survey India falls in the lowest quartile with respect to the number of women in parliament 9.1% where the % is 22.2 in UAE. The violence against women is usually caused by insufficient implementation of laws, lack of support and a decline in what we call moral values. When men fail to find fault in women’s activities, they raise questions about women’s chastity. Threats, kidnapping and emotional and sexual harassment are among the other forms of violence cited on women candidates. The result being women are afraid of going into politics.
Hence to ensure a fair and unbiased representative culture, it is important that politics should be made free from hooligans and money flaunters, so that not only women from privileged families from backups and patriarchal support get into foreplay but actually talented and dedicated women also get a fair chance to rise and shine in political picture of India.
Though Indian Political system gives powers and roles to the men and women irrespective of their gender. Many states had and have women as CM’s Sushma Swaraj as External affairs minister, Lok Sabha speaker as Sumitra Mahajan, INC President as Sonia Gandhi, Late Jayalalitha and many more need no introduction. They have played prominent and decisive roles in the politics of India.
But when we do a reality check in the grassroots of the Indian Political System we can easily find out that the role of women is limited to a vote bank only. The reality Showcase how appearances are used to facilitate the ongoing objectification of female politicians as a marketing product and devalue their reputation. In many more other cases, women are just a puppet of their husbands or other male member of the family. The picture becomes gloomy then. Women in the today’s political scenario are used as a product to attract the masses. They are not only discussed as one of the favourite topic but are also criticised and harassed a level beyond. Unknowing men, expose their chauvinism and their deep down gender biases suddenly floats. Situations like this mirror the society’s psyche about women in politics. The same women candidates are ridiculed for their physical appearances and a complete character assassination is done, whereas on the other hand, in the name of equality they are used as tool of upliftment.
Women are perpetually excluded from decision-making at every step of the ladder. According to a survey India falls in the lowest quartile with respect to the number of women in parliament 9.1% where the % is 22.2 in UAE. The violence against women is usually caused by insufficient implementation of laws, lack of support and a decline in what we call moral values. When men fail to find fault in women’s activities, they raise questions about women’s chastity. Threats, kidnapping and emotional and sexual harassment are among the other forms of violence cited on women candidates. The result being women are afraid of going into politics.
Hence to ensure a fair and unbiased representative culture, it is important that politics should be made free from hooligans and money flaunters, so that not only women from privileged families from backups and patriarchal support get into foreplay but actually talented and dedicated women also get a fair chance to rise and shine in political picture of India.
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