Team

Ek Pehel

aurat insaan haiEvery Woman’s Battle: A Battle we are losing

Shuchi

Srinivasan

Akshay

Milap

Deepika

Saluja

Anush

Mohan

Rajiv

Ranjan

Gender Education Education (Research Interests)Gender Sustainability

Doctoral Students, IIM Ahmedabad

TheHarsh

Reality

The Result

The Root

Cause

Dowry

Deaths8391 in

2010

Female

FoeticideSex Ratio

940

Rape24000

cases

in 2012

Domestic

Violence94000

cases ‘10

Unequal

WagesPay gap

’05 is 57%

Lower

Voice33% Bill

Pending

Unequal

Asset

Distribution

Poor Land

Ownership

Skewed

Employment

Opportunity

Forced

Prostitution

“A Gender Unequal Society”

marred by socio-cultural, economic and political inequalitiesGender Inequality Index (GII): Rank 129 out of 146, UNDP Report 2011

Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM): Rank 128 out of 177, UNDP Report 2008

Socio-Cultural Economic Political

Gender(Social Construct)

≠Sex

(Biological Construct)

Feminine• Docile

• Subservient

• Obedient

Masculine• Strength

• Dominant

• Imposing

Religion

Culture

Norms

Values

Popular CultureAssign Gender

Traits

Glorified

Through

PATRIARCHY

EmpoweredDisempoweredTwo India’s: A Dichotomy

Women are a heterogeneous group and could be divided into two segments

‘The Empowered’ and ‘The Disempowered’

Problems

Socio Cultural

Dimension

Economically & Politically empowered

Since the problems are different, the solutions too must be multi-pronged.

But we must understand that the Socio-Cultural Dimension is the single most

important barrier to women empowerment

Economic & Political

empowerment through Voice

Mechanisms, Education

& Sensitization BENEFITS

Dormant

Human Capital

Economically

& Politically

Disempowered

Judicial Reforms Police Reforms Societal Reforms Political Reforms

No Micro-Management of

police officials by political

class

Overworked policemen to be

freed from political

engagements & VVIP

securities to focus on the ‘core’

job of policing

Pro-active policing

Competitive Remuneration

Agencification & Designing

Performance Indicators

Equal Representation of

Women in Policing

Strengthening Girl Child

Education with special focus on

self defense.

Induce ‘Element of Fear’ by

implementing Stronger

Penalties for crime against

women including ‘Death

Penalty’

High conviction rate and Time

bound Redressal Mechanisms

to enhance ‘Respect for Law’

Strengthening Criminal

Proceedings, involving young

student lawyers

Financial & Economic

Emancipation through Gender

inclusive Land Rights

Educate young men and

women to see themselves as

equals. The solution begins at

home where parents need to

treat their children equally

Empathy towards Women

and each other

Family Support required to

raise voice against crime

• “It was just that my bottom was

pinched, atleast I wasn’t raped”

Such attitude of young,

educated, empowered women

needs to change

• Creation of Role Models and

reinforcing the images through

Popular Culture

Designing modules issued by

NCW in collaboration with

eminent scholars, field

practioners

Outsourcing Gender

Sensitive Workshops to

NGO’s

No politicization of matters

related to women abuse

Politics is dominated by

notions of PATRIARCHY.

‘Political Sensitivity’ is a

requirement to fight deep

seated institutionalized

cultural chauvinism

Platform for interaction

between the empowered

women and the masses

VISION 2050 ‘A set of complementary SHORT TERM and LONG TERM Reforms implemented in a Time Bound manner’

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Judicial and Police Reforms (Short Term Strategy)

PENALTIES: Issue strong penalties for crimes against women. The

cash inflow could act as an alternate ‘Revenue Stream’. Even crimes

like Eve Teasing would invoke a Penalty of Rs. 20, 000 subject to a

cascading rate depending upon the repetition of the incident.

INCENTIVES: Celebrate Heroes and reward them in cash or kind.

Why are people like ‘Constable Kuldeep’ who fought bravely

against goons in Mumbai not spoken often.

LAWYERS: Mandatory Internship for ALL Law School Students in

Fast Track Courts. Make such national service as part of school

curriculum which would then be rewarded with a certificate. A

minimum of two such stints shall be mandatory.

AGENCIFICATION: Separate team for women issues & crimes.

Team should have an equal composition of men & women and

appropriate caste representation. Complete independence for

investigation & decision making. Incentivize teams of innovative

women practitioners

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Judicial and Police Reforms (Short Term Strategy)

NATIONAL PORTAL ON LAND RIGHTS: With an

incremental expenditure of just Rs. 10000, create a 1 year time

bound project for a monthly updated National Portal containing a

database of Land Records, Gender Wise details of Ownership and

Land Usage. Ask districts to upload scanned copies of land

documents & provide statistics of gender composition of

ownership patterns. To pass a law ensuring equal land ownership

by 2050

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Socio Political Reforms (Long Term Strategy)

TIME BOUND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BY 2040: Equal

gender representation (Caste Sensitive) in every public institution.

ROLE OF POPULAR MEDIA: Prime time slots must be

assigned to shows seen as gender sensitive and promoting and re-

enforcing positive practical gender images. Shows which re

enforce notions of patriarchy and subservience must be

discouraged through heavier taxation .

IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Socio Political Reforms (Long Term Strategy)

THE ASLI ‘MARD’: Empowerment must begin with both men

and women at the same time. In all activities mentioned men and

boys must be involved. This would cure the mutation caused by a

patriarchal mind set.

DIALOGUE: Provision of a platform for interaction between

women from various walks of life. These women would

complement each other traits and also employ dialogue for solution

building.

EDUCATING HOMES: Children should be clearly made to

understand that the biological difference between a girl & a boy is

the only difference between them. This notion needs to become a

fulltime part of curriculum and reinforced though popular media

and cartoons.

DEVELOP A GENDER SENSITIVITY MODULE: In the

initial phases, this module would become a part of a mandatory

workshop to be attended by elected representatives prior to their

swearing in ceremony. To be made a part of student curriculum &

work ethics dictum

SUSTAINABILITY

• We have offered a set of both Short term & Long term measures which are complimentary in nature and ensure elimination of notions of “PATRIARCHY”

• These institutions are time bound, task oriented and will dissolve over time because we believe that the very existence of these institutions would re enforce the idea of patriarchy

SCALABILITY

• National laws or constitutional orders alone could serve as solutions for ensuring law school participation, Agencification of police, Higher Taxation for TV shows promoting patriarchy

• A land portal could be started with an initial investment of Rs. 10 lakhs.

• The gender sensitive module could be developed and exercised with an initial investment of Rs. 25 lakhs

• Increasing remuneration paid to police force must be a priority objective in the 7th Pay commission

CRITERIA

• Notion of Gender Equity

• Time Based Evaluation where the growth rates would be studied to deduce progress

MONITORING

MECHANISMS

• Participation and representation in all public

institutions, to ensure greater political and economic

voice

• Rate of declining crime rates

• Proportion of reported crimes

Mitigation Factors

Implementation Risk

Conceptual Challenges

Popular presumption says

that ‘Matriarchy’ is the

answer to ‘Patriarchy’

Lack of Political Will:

Present inertia to take

stronger action against

crimes against women is a

product of political and

diplomatic concerns.

Sustainability of initiatives

No Passing the Buck: The

Buck stops at the woman

herself

Potential ‘Corruption’

with respect to Penalties

Lack of adequate

Training, qualified

Trainers and Equipment

Our proposal is simply

‘Humanarchy’

A mass movement to

garner Signatures from

across the country where

politically controversial

issues like Death Penalty,

Castration could be raised

Restructuring educational

curriculum depicting

‘Women as Equals’

Leveraging Print and

Visual Media: Social

marketing to repeatedly

reinforce positive

behaviour and empathy

towards women

Online Payment Portal

Provision of

Technologically Advanced

instruments, tracers, use of

ICT for training

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