Change The Models Of Indian Womanhood
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Change The Models Of Indian Womanhood

“Tomorrow I’ll be an educated woman.” Thus said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova had opened a press conference in Paris almost at the same time last year. These words… alas… remained strong just on paper.

Today, India ranks at 141 among 165 countries analysed by Newsweek magazine in the treatment of women. Even Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and China, besides many other countries, ranked higher than India.

I am not surprised though. World over … the governments, agencies, NGOs are eating funds in the name of female education in particular. It will not be an exaggeration to say that girls’ education fund-raising is a false campaign.

Though the subject remains one of the most urgent needs of our global society, the treatment is so cruel that I wonder if we could ever place women at an equal level with men.

When I meet ministers or officials of the related departments I do ask if they personally give absolute priority to this goal of education, and education of girls in particular. Most of the time, I find difference in the language their mouth and body speak. To read more, please go to http://neerajbhushan.com/2011/09/25/change-the-models-of-indian-womanhood/

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