The document discusses gender inequality in India through various statistics showing issues like dowry deaths, female foeticide, rape cases, and domestic violence. It argues that India has a "gender unequal society" due to socio-cultural, economic, and political inequalities. To address this, it proposes short-term reforms like stronger penalties for crimes against women and long-term reforms such as ensuring equal gender representation and educating children to see boys and girls as equals. It also discusses implementation plans and challenges to achieving gender equality in India.

1. Team
Ek Pehel
aurat insaan hai
Every Woman’s Battle: A Battle we are losing
Shuchi
Srinivasan
Akshay
Milap
Deepika
Saluja
Anush
Mohan
Rajiv
Ranjan
Gender Education Education (Research Interests)Gender Sustainability
Doctoral Students, IIM Ahmedabad

2. The Harsh
Reality
The Result
The Root
Cause
Dowry
Deaths
8391 in
2010
Female
Foeticide
Sex Ratio
940
Rape
24000
cases
in 2012
Domestic
Violence
94000
cases ‘10
Unequal
Wages
Pay gap
’05 is 57%
Lower
Voice
33% Bill
Pending
Unequal
Asset
Distribution
Poor Land
Ownership
Skewed
Employment
Opportunity
Forced
Prostitution
“A Gender Unequal Society”
marred by socio-cultural, economic and political inequalities
Gender Inequality Index (GII): Rank 129 out of 146, UNDP Report 2011
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM): Rank 128 out of 177, UNDP Report 2008
Socio-Cultural EconomicPolitical
Gender
(Social Construct)
≠
Sex
(Biological Construct)
Feminine
• Docile
• Subservient
• Obedient
Masculine
• Strength
• Dominant
• Imposing
Religion
Culture
Norms
Values
Popular CultureAssign Gender
Traits
Glorified
Through
PATRIARCHY

3. EmpoweredDisempowered
Two India’s: A Dichotomy
Women are a heterogeneous group and could be divided into two segments
‘The Empowered’ and ‘The Disempowered’
Problems
Socio
Cultural
Dimension
Economically
& Politically
empowered
Since the problems are different, the solutions too must be multi-pronged.
But we must understand that the Socio-Cultural Dimension is the single most
important barrier to women empowerment
Economic & Political
empowerment through Voice
Mechanisms, Education
& Sensitization
BENEFITS
Dormant
Human Capital
Economically
& Politically
Disempowered

4. Judicial Reforms Police Reforms Societal Reforms Political Reforms
 No Micro-Management of
police officials by political
class
 Overworked policemen to be
freed from political
engagements & VVIP
securities to focus on the ‘core’
job of policing
 Pro-active policing
 Competitive Remuneration
 Agencification & Designing
Performance Indicators
 Equal Representation of
Women in Policing
 Strengthening Girl Child
Education with special focus on
self defense.
 Induce ‘Element of Fear’ by
implementing Stronger
Penalties for crime against
women including ‘Death
Penalty’
 High conviction rate and Time
bound Redressal Mechanisms
to enhance ‘Respect for Law’
 Strengthening Criminal
Proceedings, involving young
student lawyers
 Financial & Economic
Emancipation through Gender
inclusive Land Rights
 Educate young men and
women to see themselves as
equals. The solution begins at
home where parents need to
treat their children equally
 Empathy towards Women
and each other
 Family Support required to
raise voice against crime
• “It was just that my bottom was
pinched, atleast I wasn’t raped”
Such attitude of young,
educated, empowered women
needs to change
• Creation of Role Models and
reinforcing the images through
Popular Culture
 Designing modules issued by
NCW in collaboration with
eminent scholars, field
practioners
 Outsourcing Gender
Sensitive Workshops to
NGO’s
 No politicization of matters
related to women abuse
 Politics is dominated by
notions of PATRIARCHY.
‘Political Sensitivity’is a
requirement to fight deep
seated institutionalized
cultural chauvinism
 Platform for interaction
between the empowered
women and the masses
VISION 2050 ‘A set of complementary SHORT TERM and LONG TERM Reforms implemented in a Time Bound manner’

6. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Judicial and Police Reforms (Short Term Strategy)
 PENALTIES: Issue strong penalties for crimes against women. The
cash inflow could act as an alternate ‘Revenue Stream’. Even crimes
like Eve Teasing would invoke a Penalty of Rs. 20, 000 subject to a
cascading rate depending upon the repetition of the incident.
 INCENTIVES: Celebrate Heroes and reward them in cash or kind.
Why are people like ‘Constable Kuldeep’ who fought bravely
against goons in Mumbai not spoken often.
 LAWYERS: Mandatory Internship for ALL Law School Students in
Fast Track Courts. Make such national service as part of school
curriculum which would then be rewarded with a certificate. A
minimum of two such stints shall be mandatory.
 AGENCIFICATION: Separate team for women issues & crimes.
Team should have an equal composition of men & women and
appropriate caste representation. Complete independence for
investigation & decision making. Incentivize teams of innovative
women practitioners

7. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Judicial and Police Reforms (Short Term Strategy)
 NATIONAL PORTAL ON LAND RIGHTS: With an
incremental expenditure of just Rs. 10000, create a 1 year time
bound project for a monthly updated National Portal containing a
database of Land Records, Gender Wise details of Ownership and
Land Usage. Ask districts to upload scanned copies of land
documents & provide statistics of gender composition of
ownership patterns. To pass a law ensuring equal land ownership
by 2050
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Socio Political Reforms (Long Term Strategy)
 TIME BOUND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BY 2040: Equal
gender representation (Caste Sensitive) in every public institution.
 ROLE OF POPULAR MEDIA: Prime time slots must be
assigned to shows seen as gender sensitive and promoting and re-
enforcing positive practical gender images. Shows which re
enforce notions of patriarchy and subservience must be
discouraged through heavier taxation .

8. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
Socio Political Reforms (Long Term Strategy)
 THE ASLI ‘MARD’: Empowerment must begin with both men
and women at the same time. In all activities mentioned men and
boys must be involved. This would cure the mutation caused by a
patriarchal mind set.
 DIALOGUE: Provision of a platform for interaction between
women from various walks of life. These women would
complement each other traits and also employ dialogue for solution
building.
 EDUCATING HOMES: Children should be clearly made to
understand that the biological difference between a girl & a boy is
the only difference between them. This notion needs to become a
fulltime part of curriculum and reinforced though popular media
and cartoons.
 DEVELOPA GENDER SENSITIVITY MODULE: In the
initial phases, this module would become a part of a mandatory
workshop to be attended by elected representatives prior to their
swearing in ceremony. To be made a part of student curriculum &
work ethics dictum

9. SUSTAINABILITY
• We have offered a set of both Short term & Long term measures
which are complimentary in nature and ensure elimination of
notions of “PATRIARCHY”
• These institutions are time bound, task oriented and will
dissolve over time because we believe that the very existence of
these institutions would re enforce the idea of patriarchy
SCALABILITY
• National laws or constitutional orders alone could serve as solutions for
ensuring law school participation, Agencification of police, Higher
Taxation for TV shows promoting patriarchy
• A land portal could be started with an initial investment of Rs. 10 lakhs.
• The gender sensitive module could be developed and exercised with an
initial investment of Rs. 25 lakhs
• Increasing remuneration paid to police force must be a priority objective
in the 7th Pay commission
CRITERIA
• Notion of Gender Equity
• Time Based Evaluation where the growth rates would be studied to deduce
progress
MONITORING
MECHANISMS
• Participation and representation in all public
institutions, to ensure greater political and economic
voice
• Rate of declining crime rates
• Proportion of reported crimes

10. Mitigation
Factors
Implementation
Risk
Conceptual
Challenges
 Popular presumption says
that ‘Matriarchy’ is the
answer to ‘Patriarchy’
 Lack of Political Will:
Present inertia to take
stronger action against
crimes against women is a
product of political and
diplomatic concerns.
 Sustainability of initiatives
 No Passing the Buck: The
Buck stops at the woman
herself
 Potential ‘Corruption’
with respect to Penalties
 Lack of adequate
Training, qualified
Trainers and Equipment
 Our proposal is simply
‘Humanarchy’
 A mass movement to
garner Signatures from
across the country where
politically controversial
issues like Death Penalty,
Castration could be raised
 Restructuring educational
curriculum depicting
‘Women as Equals’
 Leveraging Print and
Visual Media: Social
marketing to repeatedly
reinforce positive
behaviour and empathy
towards women
 Online Payment Portal
 Provision of
Technologically Advanced
instruments, tracers, use of
ICT for training

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