Past: We Two; Ours Two.
Present: We Two; Ours One.
Future: We Two; Ours None!!
With the changing days, the
concept of Family Planning is also changing. Why not?
Modernization and Urbanization has increased the awareness among people in the Society, that women are no longer be treated as what they were from ages ago. Continuous efforts have made life better for women amongst men. Men are no longer the only '
bosses' and Women are no longer the only '
slaves'. We all are convinced that, women enjoy a better position in Society. Good.
According to a recent analysis of figures collected from the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Karnataka (under National Rural Health Mission - NRHM), 99% of those who underwent sterilization during 2008-09 are women. I repeat, 99% of those who underwent sterilization (
family planning operation) during 2008-09 are women.
Family - the basic unit of Society, still seems to be under the strong clutches of victimizing women. Though often we speak to substantiate that women enjoy almost equal status as men in a Family, it seems to be too far from reality. Why should only women undergo family planning operations alone? Are there no ways available to sterilize men? There are.. but men opt not to!! Why so? Have we ever thought of this?
Great people have been dreaming of the so-called
Moral Society, not from today, way back from ages. But, with such a thing happening to women in the very basic unit of Society - Family, how can one expect
Morality in the whole system of Society? This clearly shows that we (men) are not wholeheartedly sharing our social status with them (women). Have women gotten the justice they deserve?
I just feel that the change should be initiated right in the Family, and not in the Constitution with the '33%' thing. We shout aloud in public that women are given reservation in education, jobs, buses, railways, panchayats, parliament, what not? But, we never say what have we given to them in the Family!
Stats Speak the Unsaid - with 99% of them subjected to family planning being women, the torture on women does continue to exist in
Silence and in
Abundance. So, my dear '
gender counterparts', please be prepared; your turn is not too far..