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The gulf of Patriarchy and Matriarchy!

The gulf of Patriarchy and Matriarchy!

Society
Brutish challenges suppress Indian girls from being empowered and put their future in darkness.  Nearly 1 in 4 girls aged 15 - 19 globally are neither in education, employment nor training, compared to 1 in 10 boys.  UNESCO estimates that globally 129 million girls are out of school, including 32million of primary school age, and 97million of secondary school age. Child marriage is a critical challenge, it has jeopardized and continues to jeopardize the rights of girls in India.  This evil practice has and continues to exclude girls from fundamental decision making such as the timing of marriage and choice of spouse.  Even in this millennium era, girls living in rural areas are twice as likely to be married before 18 with no education.  Girls who marry young are much more likely to drop
Gender Solidarity in the Political World

Gender Solidarity in the Political World

Society
Strong women inspire the world, in the year of cry and crisis, the United Nations rightly themed this year as a year of ‘women in leadership: achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world’ as the world witnessed young girls use their voices and grandmothers raise up a new generation with utmost confidence. It is awe-inspiring to witness equality eloquently contested with compassion and strength. Since time immemorial, women have shown unshakable strength of faith, convinced of God’s provisions and power invoked miraculous resurrection to what is supernatural winning favor in the eyes of Emperors even at the cost of embracing the possibility of death, prevented genocide of an entire clan. Utmost determination and strength shine in them even in the midst of adversities. The global
The need for Gender Justice!

The need for Gender Justice!

Society
India is at war with its girls and women! The gang rape of a young doctor on a bus, the gang rape of an 8 year old girl in a temple by many men including a policeman (who later washed the clothes and destroyed evidence) repeated rapes of a minor and so on…are some gruesome examples of the recent past. Rape and sexual assault against remain particularly horrific and outrageous in India. The National Crimes Records Bureau in India reveals that 42% of girls in the country have been sexually abused. India can be arguably accused of the largest-scale human rights violation on Earth with a persistent degradation of the vast majority of its 650million girls and women. India’s women are traumatized and the oppression starts innocuously: it occurs within families where girls are being locked up
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