This year’s teej -- when we deck up, sing, dance and fast to forget our tribulation -- is behind us. However, women’s vilification by men – and some manly women – is not. Absurd as it is, it also stands against the basic tenets of democracy and free market.
This year, absurdity reached a new height. A manly woman minister exhorted women to tamp down teej and sell their jewelry to invest in power projects. The anti-graft body, CIAA, warned women to curtail teej parties or face the consequences under the Social Conduct Reform Act (SCRA) 2033 BS. Police advised women not to wear or show ornaments in public, rather than promising them security.
People wear ornaments to show, not to hide.
That is not all. Even the Pashupati Area Development
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It is sexist, because those vilifying women are mostly men, the very men who shamelessly party and gamble round the year. You don’t demonize men who rape, murder, gamble, or engage in corruption. Why do you humiliate women for celebrating teej to forget their sufferings for a while? Don’t they have right to enjoy, as men do?
It is anti-democratic. In a democratic society, government has no business interfering in the private life of individuals and families until a crime or threat of crime has taken place. Spending money on your daughter or son’s marriage, on your teej celebration, on your children’s education and treatment as much as you wish, do not constitute a threat of crime or a crime for government to poke its nose.
It is also anti-human rights. Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says, government should not arbitrarily interfere with the privacy, honor and reputation, among other things, of anyone. Article 18 of the Declaration says, everyone should have the right to freedom of thought and religion, including in teaching, practice, worship and observance in public or
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Some spend their fortunes on education, health or festivals, while others don’t. However, my marriage was simple, even though my parents and my husband come from the middle class. We invited much less people than the 51 guests allowed by the law. We spent only a fraction of what others spend on their marriage. We didn’t imitate others.
Therefore, the Social Conduct Reform Act should be scrapped. Our leaders don’t obey it and others, who live within their means, don’t need it. The Act is a legacy of the feudalistic Panchayat days, when you could not build a house taller than the royal palace around it, could not ride better cars than the royalties, and could not spend more on weddings, teejs and other festivals than the royal family did. It should have been abandoned with the monarchy itself.
In a normal free-market democracy, government does not tell people how much they should spend on teejs or weddings, what they should wear, which cars they should ride, and where they should send their kids to school. Such prescriptions are redolent of the authoritarian North Korean government, not of a democratic
...s" and not to discriminate on the basis and premise of sex. Even though few women benefitted from the scheme, Justice Stewart noted that "veteran's status's not uniquely male." Furthermore, the law placed many men who were not veterans at a disadvantage as well.
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Throughout this essay it will be discussed how female representations affects society, what has changed, if has changed during the years. Representations of women were a crucial subject of discussion especially in the concepts of the gaze that often refers to women as objects of the active gaze. The gaze establishes relationships of power, representing different codes such as dominance and subjugation, difference and otherness (Sturken and Cartwright 2009: 111).
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For centuries, women have simply faced the challenge of having their rights and being recognized in The United States. In a union that is supposedly “united”, women are often criticized, ridiculed, and shamed simply because they are women. There have been various efforts to get women their equality. There is a need for respect, that goes beyond just equality with men; it is a fight for living, surviving, and finally getting what is deserving of women. It is the equality and rights of women that should not be up for debate or heavily controlled by the government. Society is constantly dehumanizing women, their status, and undermining their achievements. There are many factors that play in the detrimental society in The United States such as rape culture, media, and religion.
Even some of the most authoritarian regimes around today allude to the fact that democracy is desirable. In the 2012 EIU's Index of Democracy, North Korea is ranked 167th in terms of level of democracy (the lowest ranked country on the index). Yet they mention democracy in their countries official name, “Democratic People's Republic of Korea”. Those outside of North Korea might look at this as some sort of sick joke, but it highlights peoples desire for fair and democratic process across the world. North Korea is an extreme case for lack of democracy, as well as an extreme case of government mandated censorship, but censorship is not limited to the low end of the democratic spectrum. It comes many shapes and forms and exists in some level in the majority of nations across the globe. This paper will outline and analyze ...
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Women’s rights are an important factor in understanding global well-being. Although a treaty was endorsed by the majority of the world’s nations a few decades ago, numerous issues still exist in most aspects of life, despite many successes in liberating women. It is an unfortunate case, how women are paid less than men, yet work more; throughout their lifetime, gender discrimination negatively affects girls and women; and women are often the ones who are in a state of poverty. It is a common misconception to think that women’s rights only exist in countries where religion is a law. Similarly, some individuals might think that the rights of women are an issue no more. Unfortunately that is not the case. Today, gender bias continues to
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Outline and assess the view that patriarchy is the main cause of gender inequality (40 marks)