Advocate L.Victoria Gowri

Room No1, Saroja Towers, Parvathipuram, Nagercoil – 629 003.

E-mail : ramgowri123@rediff.com

Cell : 9443375586

Lord Denning in his Due Process of Law exclaimed (Page 194-195), A women feels as keenly, thinks as clearly, as a man.  She in her sphere does work as useful as man does in his.  She has as much right to her freedom to develop her personality to the full as a man.  When she marries, she does not become the husband’s servant but his equal partner.  If his work is more important in life of the community, her’s is more important in the life of the family.  Neither can do without the other.  Neither is above the other or under the other.  They are equal”.

In the large majority of homes, the women plays a pivotal role without whose participation the whole structure of the family tends to collapse.  House work is the most productive, the most responsible and the most arduous work a woman can do.  It is exceptionally a life engineering task which contributes much to the fundamental structuring of this society.  The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of women will always undertake, requires qualities of high self esteem and relent less patience she has to be active and she has to be passive.  The art of bringing up our generation is her special prerogative.  Without woman’s dedication the race must become extinct.

Today women have emerged to play multi-faceted roles awing much to contribute to the family economically too.  Thus modern living puts a lot of psychological pressures on women.  The result is anxiety and depression from constant pressures like isolation and fragmentation of families into small compartments, urbanisation, industrialisation, pollution, constant vigilance and control over children who are now increasingly exposed to the negativities of the media and the various scientific developments.  All this makes the burden of house management all the more tedious and heavy, without relief, relaxation or break.  The sum and substance of all this is that, women are working tirelessly all the time for the sake of their generation, for the sake of their race, for the sake of this society, for the sake of this nation, at large for the sake of this universe.

Despite her active participation in the growth and welfare of the community and country concerned, ironically she continues to be an unequal partner, intolerably unequal.  She is still a battered wife, a bonded labourer, gang rape victim, a damsel for sale in weekly markets in the backward provinces or to foreigners as bride for a price and a prone subject of domestic violence sexual harassment at work.  Pernicious social evils emanate from shattered homes where women are kept in surveillance and abeyance.  Gender injustice and gender violence sows the seeds of perversion and depression in the society.  Gender discrimination is the greatest moral challenge which humanity faces today.  Eradicate gender discrimination before it is too late, for women is the symbol of life in every family, the honour of every community, the future of every nation.  She is hope, kindness, laughter, joy becomes irrelevant.  If stabilize womanhood to strengthen the foundations of our society.  The claim is not to end gender injustice but  to restore universal justice.  For it is none who pay for gender violence, but it is our society at large which would be victimized, traumatired and shattered.  The bid for cosmic harmony will remain a dream till gender violence is uprooted.