(1)In Punjab, female foeticide is widely practised. In Haryana, caste
panchayats come down hard on girls who dare to choose
their marriage partners. Jihadis in Kashmir demand that woman wear
burqas. Dowry deaths happen in middle-class urban
house-holds. Still, when viewed from a longer historical
perspective, and taking the country as a whole, it is clear
that the direction of changeis forward-looking, towards making
women more equal partners in social and economic life.
(source-hindustan times Thursday, May 31,2012)
(2)In Kabul today, there are women in school and college, women at
work, women as members of parliament, women as
journalists, enterpreneurs, singers, actors. To be sure, across the
countryside more conservative not to say reactionary,
practices hold sway. Still, the defeat of Taliban set in motion
processess that could, in time, make women less oppressed
more able to feel part of a democratic and plural
society.(source-hindustan times Thursday, May 31,2012)
(3)Undoubtedly, many Bangladeshis feel that the government should
maintain friendly relations with both these two coutries
and benefit from their growing economic might. Still, there is a
section in the country which believes that the country
should play China as a counter-balance to India and this will
likely turn the case in their favour.(source-Hindustan Times Friday,
July 27, 2012)
(4)But keep proving their worth they must and hence the predominance
of these surveys. Of course, those put to the test belonged to
countries like United States, Canada, New Zealand and Argentina,
and not regions where regressive practices would put a lid on the
very existence of women, leave alone their intelligence. Still, it
would seem that we have travelled some distance from the times when
low IQ scores would be used by the eugenics movement in the US to
forcibly sterilise poor African American women. Cleaver women can
indeed
be a thing of joy but those found wanting may yet find the road
ahead somewhat difficult.
(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, July 11, 2012)
panchayats come down hard on girls who dare to choose
their marriage partners. Jihadis in Kashmir demand that woman wear
burqas. Dowry deaths happen in middle-class urban
house-holds. Still, when viewed from a longer historical
perspective, and taking the country as a whole, it is clear
that the direction of changeis forward-looking, towards making
women more equal partners in social and economic life.
(source-hindustan times Thursday, May 31,2012)
(2)In Kabul today, there are women in school and college, women at
work, women as members of parliament, women as
journalists, enterpreneurs, singers, actors. To be sure, across the
countryside more conservative not to say reactionary,
practices hold sway. Still, the defeat of Taliban set in motion
processess that could, in time, make women less oppressed
more able to feel part of a democratic and plural
society.(source-hindustan times Thursday, May 31,2012)
(3)Undoubtedly, many Bangladeshis feel that the government should
maintain friendly relations with both these two coutries
and benefit from their growing economic might. Still, there is a
section in the country which believes that the country
should play China as a counter-balance to India and this will
likely turn the case in their favour.(source-Hindustan Times Friday,
July 27, 2012)
(4)But keep proving their worth they must and hence the predominance
of these surveys. Of course, those put to the test belonged to
countries like United States, Canada, New Zealand and Argentina,
and not regions where regressive practices would put a lid on the
very existence of women, leave alone their intelligence. Still, it
would seem that we have travelled some distance from the times when
low IQ scores would be used by the eugenics movement in the US to
forcibly sterilise poor African American women. Cleaver women can
indeed
be a thing of joy but those found wanting may yet find the road
ahead somewhat difficult.
(source-Hindustan Times Wednesday, July 11, 2012)
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