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'Gender discrimination in India worse than
sub-Saharan Africa'
Wednesday January 23, 2013 08:51:09 AM,
IANS
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Aligarh: Discrimination against women in India was higher than even the
poorest Sub-Saharan countries in Africa, said noted economist Prabhat Patnaik here Saturday.
There were only 94 women per 100 men in India while in Sub-Saharan
Africa, the ratio was 102 women per 100 men, he said at a seminar
on 'Women of India: From Repression to Empowerment" at Aligarh
Muslim University.
Patnaik put the blame on female foeticide linking it to
patriarchal structure of society which brewed injustices against
women.
Capitalist development in India neither broke the old community
which provided the base for patriarchy and caste system nor
created anywhere to the same degree the basis for formation of a
new community, said the former Jawaharlal Nehru University
professor.
"We have therefore a combination of 'khap panchayats' on the one
hand and a substantial lumpen-proletariat on the other," he said.
The notion of women empowerment had been a part of the
anti-colonial struggle, which received a setback because of both
these phenomena, Patnaik said.
University Vice Chancellor Lt. Gen. Zameer Uddin Shah said
empowerment of the women could only be brought about by expansion
in education, a change in mindsets and execution of harsh
punishments.
Shireen Moosvi, director of Advance Centre for Women's Studies at
the university, said the nation had awakened, as never before, due
to the spate of violence against women to question how far women
in India are from equality and empowerment.
She said the urge of coercion had never been more grossly
manifested than in the statements that women should not carry
mobiles, wear jeans and stir out at night.
One wonders why the same demands were not made on men, from whose
ranks the guilty come? she said.
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