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Correspondence between Anand Shankar Mohanty<\/strong> (student at Xavier Institute of Social Service – Ranchi) and Chanceline Furaha Bisimwa <\/strong>(\u00e9tudiante \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Catholique de Bukavu)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Chanceline Furaha Bisimwa,<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gender equality is something we often talk about in modern societies, but is it truly possible to reach 100% gender equality? There is no doubt that we haven\u2019t achieved that goal, as, for example, the gender pay ga<\/a>p<\/a> clearly shows. Why is it that humans can reach the moon, but cannot erase discrimination? Of course, we were able to reduce discrimination, but we have never eliminated it. We may have made progress to reduce gender discrimination, but a society without gender discrimination is still a dream for us all. The reason for this can to some extent be explained from an experience I describe below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I was 7 years old, I remember I got a paper cut on my index finger. I started crying and my father told me: \u2018C\u2019mon you are a man, do not act like a girl\u2019. This was possibly one of many occasions when my father subconsciously sowed a seed in my mind that girls are meant to cry when they are hurt, and boys are meant to act tough. I was taught to think that girls are weak and boys are stronger. These seeds are sown subconsciously in the minds of children every day around the world . Subsequently, our society nurtures these seeds \u2013 through movies, social media, schools or any other place where these children interact and live \u2013 and they grow into saplings. We grow up watching movies where most of the time men are protecting women and women cannot protect themselves. In schools, we are taught that we are losers if we hit a girl and a coward if beaten by a girl. I find it quite ironic. I am not advising beating anyone, but we at least need to teach that we are not supposed to hurt anyone physically unless it is really necessary in self-defence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, women being weak is not completely wrong. For example, if a 15-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl are asked to lift weights or arm wrestle then we all know what the outcome would generally be. That men are generally physically stronger than women is a truth that cannot be argued with. But when we talk about gender equality, what does it mean? Are we only talking about human rights or are we also opposing stereotypes such as girls are weaker emotionally or they cry unnecessarily? Most of the gender equality believers will not be able to answer such a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equality means that both should be given equal opportunities to show their true potential. But, at the same time, we have created quotas for women in parliament and educational institutions. People believe it is for the empowerment of women, but I think equality and the empowerment of women are two different things. On the one hand, we are talking about equality, and on the other hand, we are providing quotas in the name of the empowerment of women. A man with higher qualifications or more potential could have reached that position which is now been given to a woman in the name of quotas. Of course, I believe quotas for women are necessary. If today women are not competent enough, it is due to the traditions or social psychology of people. We can blame society for such a lack of competence in women. By \u2018not competent enough\u2019 I mean that they were not given equal opportunities in gaining knowledge or were not allowed to do what their male counterparts were allowed, or we can say males were never stopped from gaining knowledge. Instead, they were motivated and given the necessary support to do whatever they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we talk about history, there was once a world that was ruled by muscles rather than by brains, but things are different now. Humans have evolved and our values and norms are different to those 1,000 years ago. But as we know that \u2018old habits die hard\u2019 and the feeling of superiority over women is so much instilled in our minds that it might take a long time to reach a stage where we can say that society is completely gender-equal. I think that humankind still follows the logic of the survival of the fittest and that men gain a comparative advantage from this competition. If we analyse the last 10-20 years, we can say that we may have done something concerning gender equality, but there is still a long way to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, the idea of gender equality is something that we can dream about, but it will be very difficult to achieve. To be honest, I do not think it is possible to achieve equality by using laws, regulations and acts. It is something that people need to internalize. So, together with the necessary laws, regulations and acts, we need to spread awareness of what real gender equality means. It is not limited to equal pay or equal opportunities; it is something that we need to have absolute belief in. The world is not governed by muscles anymore, so we can say human societies have reached a stage where we can start working on achieving a dream called gender equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anand Shankar Mohanty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22-FEB-2021, Ranchi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cher Anand Shekhar Mohanty <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

L\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des sexes est une question d’actualit\u00e9 et ne date pas d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui. Elle est ancr\u00e9e dans nos habitudes et a \u00e9t\u00e9 savamment appuy\u00e9e par les lois qui r\u00e9gissent notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quand on parle de l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 des sexes, on sous-entend que les femmes et les hommes ont le m\u00eame statut et qu’ils b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient des m\u00eames conditions pour r\u00e9aliser pleinement leurs droits fondamentaux et leurs potentiels afin de pouvoir contribuer au d\u00e9veloppement politique, \u00e9conomique, social et culturel et b\u00e9n\u00e9ficier des r\u00e9sultats. Cela exige donc que nous vivions dans une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 plus inclusive o\u00f9 tous les citoyens sont activement impliqu\u00e9s dans la prise de d\u00e9cision sous tous ses aspects et o\u00f9 aucun(e) enfant, femme ou homme n\u2019est laiss\u00e9(e) pour compte ou exclu(e) en raison de son sexe, mais la discrimination qui fait partie de nos soci\u00e9t\u00e9s r\u00e9duit la chance et la possibilit\u00e9 d\u2019atteindre un stade o\u00f9 l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 entre les sexes est totale dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans mon pays par exemple et dans la plupart des tribus, seul l’enfant masculin peut h\u00e9riter le nom et les biens de son p\u00e8re. L’homme est le chef de la famille, la femme est faible et n’est destin\u00e9e qu’\u00e0 faire la cuisine m\u00eame quand elle a \u00e9tudi\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Au-del\u00e0 des us et coutumes dans la plupart de confessions religieuses, la femme ne vient qu’en seconde place. Chez les catholiques elle ne peut pas dire une messe tandis que chez les musulmans aucune femme ne peut occuper le poste d’imam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 prouv\u00e9 \u00e0 maintes reprises que l’autonomisation des femmes et des filles contribuait \u00e0 stimuler la croissance et le d\u00e9veloppement \u00e9conomiques dans tous les domaines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tous ces r\u00e8glementations sociales an\u00e9antissent et bloquent les efforts de la femme qui souhaiterait, elle aussi, acc\u00e9der \u00e0 des postes de responsabilit\u00e9 et de prise de d\u00e9cision. M\u00eame quand elle participe \u00e0 ces genres de r\u00e9unions, son r\u00f4le ne se limite le plus souvent qu’\u00e0 une forme protocolaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ceci handicape la psychologie et le mental du jeune enfant du sexe f\u00e9minin qui se voit \u00eatre discrimin\u00e9e directement ou indirectement par la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 par rapport \u00e0 son contemporain de sexe masculin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mettre fin \u00e0 toutes les formes de discriminations \u00e0 l’\u00e9gard des femmes et des filles n’est pas seulement un droit humain fondamental, mais \u00e9galement essentiel pour acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le d\u00e9veloppement durable. Bien s\u00fbr, nous avons pu r\u00e9duire la discrimination mais nous n\u2019avons jamais pu l’\u00e9liminer. Le march\u00e9 du travail pr\u00e9sente encore d\u2019\u00e9normes in\u00e9galit\u00e9s. Dans certaines r\u00e9gions, on se voit syst\u00e9matiquement refuser l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 d\u2019acc\u00e8s aux emplois. Les violences et l’exploitation sexuelles, la r\u00e9partition in\u00e9gale des t\u00e2ches domestiques non r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9es, ainsi que la discrimination dans l’exercice des fonctions publiques constituent toujours des obstacles majeurs. Il ne se limite pas \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 de r\u00e9mun\u00e9ration. De nos jours, les filles vont plus \u00e0 \u00e9cole qu’il y a 15 ans et la plupart des r\u00e9gions du monde ont atteint la parit\u00e9 des sexes dans l’enseignement primaire. Les femmes repr\u00e9sentent maintenant 41% des travailleurs r\u00e9mun\u00e9r\u00e9s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A intelligence \u00e9gale, les femmes n’ont pas eu la m\u00eame chance d\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l’\u00e9ducation de qualit\u00e9 qu’un homme. On pr\u00e9f\u00e8re privil\u00e9gier l’homme parce qu’on sait qu\u2019une femme \u00e0 un moment donn\u00e9 quittera la famille pour se marier \u00e0 l\u2019ext\u00e9rieur et ne servira \u00e0 rien. Pour mettre fin \u00e0 ces in\u00e9galit\u00e9s et permettre \u00e0 une femme de r\u00eaver et pour qu’elle soit autonome dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, il faudra commencer par l’\u00e9ducation de la jeune fille d\u00e8s le bas \u00e2ge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Votre correspondante<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chanceline Bisimwa Furaha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14-MARCH-2021\nBukavu
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Dear Chanceline Furaha Bisimwa,<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I completely understand your point concerning women being forced by society to give up their dreams. And I also agree with you that religion itself has the largest role to play in gender discrimination. Women being the housemaker and men being the earner is a notion imbedded so deeply in our minds by our society that it takes a lot of effort to change or to remove that scar. But when we talk about gender equality, it is quite difficult to achieve. Recently, our institution was offered an internship programme from an esteemed organization. Many of my colleagues were interviewed and only boys were selected. Why does this happen? It is not that the female candidates were not competent enough. It is just that the internship programme needs them to attend their office after classes, that is, in the second half of the day and they may have to work late at night. Now, it is quite difficult for a girl to stay in the office until late at night or travel late at night. Even the organization knows this and is helpless to change the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above is a clear example that even if girls are given equal opportunities and proper support, the society we are living in has structured itself in such a way that we will not be able to achieve 100% gender equality in the near future; because changing the basic structure of a society takes time. For example, people here in India used to marry off their female children as soon as they hit puberty. I am talking about the situation a decade back. There was already a law stating that no girl could marry before the age of 18 and if she does her parents would be jailed. But that did not stop people from organizing child marriages. Awareness campaigns were led by celebrities, people were taught the social evils of child marriages and today the rate of child marriage has declined to almost nil in India. Similarly, the idea that women are not only housemakers but can be earners is something that we are also spreading through awareness campaigns and other methods. We can see a positive change, with the enrolment of females in higher studies increasing and with the percentage of working women increasing day-by-day. As for attaining 100% gender equality, we need to work on many other things, like making our society safe for women (as safe as it is for men). People need to stop judging women and need to accept that women are equally responsible and reliable as men. But, as I said in my previous letter, gender equality is something that will take a long time to be fully achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anand Shankar Mohanty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

19-MARCH-2021 Ranchi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cher Anand\nShankar Mohanty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 dans laquelle nous vivons s’est structur\u00e9e de telle sorte que nous ne pourrons pas atteindre 100% d’\u00e9galit\u00e9 des sexes dans un proche avenir, parce que changer la structure de base d’une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 prend du temps. Dans notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9, les coutumes voudraient qu’il y ait des m\u00e9tiers r\u00e9serv\u00e9s aux hommes et d\u2019autres r\u00e9serv\u00e9s aux femmes. Les femmes sont consid\u00e9r\u00e9es comme les m\u00e9nag\u00e8res et les hommes le gagne-pain. Toutefois, depuis un moment, certaines femmes brisent le plafond de verre et embrassent des carri\u00e8res jadis r\u00e9serv\u00e9es aux hommes. C’est ainsi qu’on trouvera des femmes comp\u00e9tentes qui excellent dans la ma\u00e7onnerie, la m\u00e9canique, les sports, etc. Le potentiel des femmes est m\u00fbr lorsqu\u2019au cours de sa vie, elle y a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9par\u00e9e. Ce qui n\u00e9cessite beaucoup d’efforts de la part de tous les acteurs. Or souvent, les hommes se voient comme non pas comme des partenaires, mais plut\u00f4t comme des adversaires \u00e9conomiques. Si la femme d\u00e9tient une autonomie financi\u00e8re, elle ne sera plus \u00e0 sa merci.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R\u00e9cemment, dans notre institution, l\u2019\u00e9lection du repr\u00e9sentant d\u00e9l\u00e9gu\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des \u00e9tudiants a oppos\u00e9 une femme et un homme. Sans prendre connaissance de son programme, certains hommes et certaines femmes avaient estim\u00e9 ne pas pouvoir voter pour la femme. “Sauras-tu g\u00e9rer les hommes ?”, demandait un \u00e9tudiant en s’adressant \u00e0 la candidate qui pr\u00e9sentait pourtant un programme tr\u00e8s ambitieux. La candidate avait r\u00e9pondu : \u00ab Osons, avec votre aide je peux y arriver. \u00bb Preuve que, m\u00eame dans un milieu domin\u00e9 par des intellectuels, les coutumes occupent une place importante en ce qui concerne la place de la femme au sein de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9. Il est, en effet, essentiel que les hommes soient de v\u00e9ritables partenaires dans cet important effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En ce qui concerne l\u2019\u00e9galit\u00e9 compl\u00e8te entre les sexes, nous devons travailler sur bien d\u2019autres choses, comme le fait de rendre notre soci\u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00fbre pour les femmes en r\u00e9veillant ce c\u00f4t\u00e9 pr\u00e9cieux qui sommeille en elles, car chez les jeunes filles africaines, il y a un manque de confiance en soi et une paresse d\u00e9mesur\u00e9e. Les jeunes filles africaines n’aiment pas oser, se battre ou lutter pour r\u00e9ussir. Mais lorsque leurs camarades filles osent, elles sont les premi\u00e8res \u00e0 critiquer. Il s\u2019agit l\u00e0 du premier blocage de la jeune fille africaine, un manque de d\u00e9termination pour travailler et avancer. L’espoir est permis. Avec le nombre \u00e9lev\u00e9 de femmes qui s’engagent aujourd’hui dans le d\u00e9veloppement de leurs communaut\u00e9s, que ce soit en politique, dans les sciences ou la recherche et dans plusieurs autres domaines, disons que petit \u00e0 petit, le foss\u00e9 est en train d’\u00eatre combl\u00e9. L’\u00e9ducation d’un grand nombre de femmes permettrait d’acc\u00e9l\u00e9rer le processus. L’id\u00e9e n’est pas d’atteindre l’\u00e9galit\u00e9 des sexes \u00e0 100 pourcents, ce qui prendra un si\u00e8cle comme vous l’aviez dit, mais de privil\u00e9gier l’\u00e9galit\u00e9 et l’acc\u00e8s aux opportunit\u00e9s. Qu’\u00e0 comp\u00e9tences et volont\u00e9s \u00e9gales, la femme ne soit pas discrimin\u00e9e \u00e0 cause de son sexe. Qu’on lui offre la possibilit\u00e9 de s’\u00e9panouir et d’exploiter pleinement son potentiel. Si chacun pouvait s’engager dans la lutte contre les pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s qui p\u00e8sent sur la femme, on aurait d\u00e9j\u00e0 r\u00e9alis\u00e9 des progr\u00e8s consid\u00e9rables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Votre correspondante<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chanceline Bisimwa furaha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

31-MARCH-2021, Bukavu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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