Why I Chose This Image For New Delhi Metro By Neelabh Banerjee And A Part Of The Project

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The image I chose was a cartoon image in the “ Cartoons for change in the New Delhi metro” article. It was made by Neelabh Banerjee and a part of the project “to create greater awareness about women’s empowerment in India”(Women, 2012). Not only in India, but around the world, there are still many countries that gender equality needs to be established.
There are many reasons why I chose this image for the symbology paper because to me, it involves all the topics we have gone over such as the image of the woman being portrayed, equality, racism, prejudgement and social class differences. First of all, when we look at this picture, the way this woman dresses, is considered as appropriate, comparing to all the work she is doing in the picture, how uncomfortable it must be when the woman always have to wear traditional clothes even when they are at home and doing work. This image reminded me of the Picture Bride topic we covered in class two weeks ago about the Japanese picture brides who had to wear their kimono to work at plantation fields.
In class, we had a chance to watch a video called Picture Brides, which talked about the housewives had to carry their children to work at the plantation fields, then when they got home, they had to do household chores and took care of the children. After long day at the fields, together, they did laundry and operated kitchen services such as cooking and washing dishes for the single male laborers of the community to earn more money for their families. With everything that was being listed, men still tend to believe that women do not work as hard as them.
Secondly, I want to point out about this picture is the way how men are laying on the cot while the only woman in the picture had to do al...

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...y will be judged on everything they do. In this image, she is carrying her baby while holding hand an older one, both of them do not look happy and the one she carrying is crying. Babies only cry when they are either hungry, feeling uncomfortable or sleepy and in this case, the mother seems to be too busy to take better care for him.
Finally, even though with all the hardships the woman has to go through, she still love her family and tries her best to do all the housework chores without complaints. With all the sweat she is having, while trying to balance two water buckets on her head so she will have time to cradle her baby to stop him from crying. The woman still put in her best efforts while the cow side glancing like judging her for trying so hard to handle everything while enjoying his meal after a long day at work, because in fact, women have no time to rest.

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