“There is a pressing need to
bring about a change in the mindset of the society so that women are treated
with dignity and respect”, President of Republic of India said on 10th
Feb 2013 at New Delhi. When our country is shattered by news of frequent
occurrence of rapes, the words of the President has to be looked very seriously
by the society.
Women had been suppressed for
centuries throughout the world and to a greater extend in our country. Today,
education and employment has reduced the plight of women in our society
considerably. The mindset of a good percentage of Indian males has also changed
from the traditional aggressive ones to that of understanding life partners.
But unfortunately majority of the women in our country still continue to suffer
at the hands of arrogant men. If women from the lower sections of the society
are physically assaulted by men, women from the middle class and the upper
class are subjected to undefined mental tortures.
The plights of many working
women in Indian society are horrifying. Very few of them have understanding
family members and majority are compelled to bear the stress by them self for
the sake of children. It is not possible to describe the hardships faced by
women at work place in an article like this and I would share my views about
the state of affairs existing in the two most important sectors of the Indian society.
In our country the professions
of Health Care and Teaching are considered as noble professions. One takes care
of the wellbeing of body and the other of mind. I sincerely believe that the
services rendered by the professionals of these two sectors play an important
role in shaping the future of our country. Unfortunately, the state of affairs
going on in these sectors is highly discouraging.
A recently published research
report regarding the status of Nurses in the private sector describes the
horrifying conditions under which majority of our Nightingales are serving. Few
months back some of them in the South India raised their voices against the
‘Crorepati’ hospital managements but political parties and numerous
associations of our country had No time to extend their support to the suppressed
employees. It is highly regretted that none of the Doctors or their
Associations uttered a word of support to the exploited nurses. It is a
well-known fact that no doctor would be able to exhibit his/her talents without
the dedicated support of the nurses.
The entire nation use to greet the teachers on Teacher’s Day and
praises them for their dedicated work in shaping the future of our nation. But
conveniently we all forget that the private school teachers are
the lowest paid professionals in our country. Most of the private schools
prefer to appoint women teachers mainly for two reasons. One is for their patience
and proficiency in teaching and the other reason is that comparatively it is easy
to change the disadvantaged women in to perfect slaves. Teachers are called the builders of nation but it is a sad truth that they are unable to build their own life in the way they wish.
