33% quota

Passage of women’s reservation Bill will alter social reality?

Its been said that history was made yesterday with the passage of the women’s reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha. A milestone has been etched in the realm of women’s empowerment in independent India by making space of 33%.
I dont think anyone can deny (maybe except for RJD, JD(U) and SP and like minded people like them) that patriarchy still runs deep in Indian society and women have been historically denied social, economic and political opportunities. Even today, women face discrimination of one sort or another both in the private and public sphere. For instance, personal laws are loaded against women and women earn less than men for the same work – just to mention two examples of manifest gender injustice.
The cause of women’s empowerment hinges on political representation and economic advancement. Which is why the passage of the women’s reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha can be justifiably termed as path-breaking social reform.
Do we really need to be happy & celebrate. I dnt think so!!!

Sixty-three years after independence, we are merely acknowledging the political rights of one half of our population. It’s been a long time coming.