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I don’t claim to be a philanthropist nor a human rights activist but there are issues which are quite close to my heart. Issues which certainly make me want to put my thoughts on paper. This is one very issue. “Gender Discrimination” A lot has been said, done & discussed but I still think we are far from making any substantial changes as yet.

Discrimination against women is not my or your issue, it is a global issue. Bias on the basis of gender is, therefore, the most tolerated violation of human rights on earth today. Even in developed western nations, women experience discrimination on the basis of their gender. In developing countries like our’s, gender bias is more rampant both in rural & urban areas. It’s seen in all the strata of society & manifests itself in various forms.

Be it educational, philosophical, physiological, intellectual, professional or political. For some reason, societies have decided that there is something inherently inferior about having a female body & producing an offspring. Throughout recorded history, there is a legacy of ancient misogyny which exhibits that women have been degraded & disenfranchised.

Be it Pre-Islamic Arabia where female infants were buried alive or ancient India where widows were forced to be burnt alive on their dead husband’s pyre. Be it the advent of Christianity during which the Old Testament figure of Eve came to embody the earlier misogynist traditions: the sinful woman who condemned humanity by corrupting Adam or be it the medical treatises of the first five centuries where a woman is attributed to physiological weakness while the man to be superior.

And unfortunately, this misogynist thought of school has silently but firmly infiltrated into today’s extremely conservative patriarchal gender-based system around the world.

We debate about being the right kind of Shia or Sunni, we debate about being the right kind of Muslim or Hindu, for a change, let’s try and be the right kind of HUMAN first & extend equal opportunities to all around us irrespective of their gender, caste creed or religion.