Push Further Movement In India

Fellow journalist and activist Rajashri Dasgupta agrees

, pointing out that, while the status of the majority of

women remains dismal, nobody can deny or ignore the situation today.

For example, every political party feels compelled to include a chapter on women in its manifesto, even if that

amounts to nothing more thank tokenism.

According to her, no other social group has been as successful in pressing for new laws and amendments to old

ones.

The challenge now, she says, is to push further and wider so that the benefits are shared by our poorer and more

disadvantaged sisters'.

Everyone agrees that feminism has come to mean different things to different people.

Even so, the ingredients of a possible common minimum platform are highlighted by scholar and activist Srilatha

Batliwala ina recent publications.

To begin with, she says, feminists now stand not only for gender equality, but for the transformation of all

social relations of power that oppress, exploit, or marginalize any set of people, women and men, on the basis of

their gender, age, sexual orientation, ability, race, religion, nationality, location, class, caste, or ethnicity.

We do not seek simplistic parity with men that would give us the damaging privileges and power that men have

enjoyed, and end in losing many of the so-called feminine' strengths and capacities that women have been

socialized to embody.

But we seek a transformation that would create gender equality within an entirely new social order-one in which

both men and women can individually and collectively live as human beings in societies built on social and

economic equality, enjoy the full range of rights, live in harmony with the natural world, and are liberated from

violence, conflict and militarization.

Push Further Movement In India

By: Kavitha Chandrappa

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