Oppression of women in
Women comprise almost half of the population on this planet. A great
majority of them are deprived of basic existing facilities of social
development. They are struggling for better health care facilities, job
opportunities and social justice, equal rights in different countries all over
the world. They are facing discrimination and social exploitation in different
societies.
United Nations recent world “Women Conference 1995” held in
1.- Women oppression
2.- Women Poverty
this conference arises many questions:
Why women are suffering, inspite of being part
and parcel of the society?
Why they are not provided with equal opportunities?
When they will get rid of their poverty, exploitation and feel free?
We think that occasional world conferences are not the solution to the
problems women have been facing in the world for centuries. Practical measures
are needed to liberate them from their sufferings.
In countries like
In
Out of 131 million population, 48% are women.
Psychologically, people don’t feel happy at the birth of baby girl.
Women literacy rate is 1.8%
135,000 women die every year at child birth due to insufficient
hospitals and health care facilities.
Insecurity at workplace is rife.
Women representation in the Parliament is negligible.
They are deprived of basic human rights, facing hikes of exploitation
including sexual harassment.
Women in
They are facing discrimination by religious leaders, who always put
obstacles in front of them, halting from doing work, getting education and
playing any part in the social development of the society.
The poor women are working as domestics, in brick-lin
industry, in construction work, especially building roads, in cotton, rice and
wheat fields, in textile and garments manufacturing industries, working 10 to
12 hours a day getting less than half wages than that of men.
Majority of them are forced to do bonded labour in carpet manufacturing
industry. Many are involved in home cottage industry.
Apart from that they are chained in different cultural and religious
traditions. The previous dictator introduced the discriminatory laws of
blasphemy “Haddod Ordinance” against women. Two women
witness are considered equal to one man in a court of justice.
We think that under the existing capitalist system of exploitation,
there is no way out for the ever increasing miseries of men, women, and childre,.
Women emancipation lies in the eradication of
old, bankrupted ideas with advanced ideology of their real liberation from all
sorts of oppression, which will provide them with equal opportunities of development
in the society of modern civilisation.
Women can achieve their rights, get emancipated from terrible
exploitation only in a socialist society of peace, justice and equality.
Nabila Khan