From: udcrusd@meaddata.com (Sylvia D'Cruz)
Subject: Re: MORE ABOUT INDIA / INDIAN WOMEN ARE TREATED FAR BETTER THAN HERE.
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 14:42:29 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1ath1lINNif7@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, vivek@ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu) writes:
|> Subject: Re: More about India/ Indian Women Are Treated Far Better Than Here.
|> Organization: California State University, Chico
|> 
|> In article <1992Oct6.215006.24872@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> tolia@hydrogen.ecn.purdue.edu (Anish Arun Tolia) writes:
|> >
|> >In article <1992Oct6.150358.28380@coe.montana.edu> prem@cs.montana.edu (M.P.Premkumar) writes:
|> 
|> Indian women are treated in a manner far better than women here. Though 
|> there are always the exceptions where eve-teasers,  and rapists etc, as
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|> well as the bride-burners exist.

It is more a RULE, than an exception.

|> In India for example, and in cities like Bombay for example try teasing
|> a woman and see what happens, you will get a sound thrashing from every
|> one around.

Maybe the wrong girl was targeted. She may have had some admirers, in that
crowd, or more likely friends, brother or someone she actually knows. It is
not uncommon, to find collegues on the same train platform, or bus stop.
And, maybe she has some clout. (If your women boss was the target, and she 
knew you were there in that crowd, I bet you would stick your neck out).

|> Here the situation is even more worse. People do'nt allow women to make
|> a choice of abortion or not,  as if her health or wish is no concern of

Abortion is an issue that involves more than just the women. It has religious 
and political consequences, too. 

|> hers at all. Apart from that it's only in South Asia and in Israel that
|> women have become leaders of their countries. Compare that to the state
|> here, where people are averse to having a woman as a Vice-President too
|> so much are they against women here.

The only reason, that India had a women Prime minister, is because she was 
the only next-of-kin of the dead prime minister. The political party could
not even come up with a suitable replacement. The fact that they tried to drag
the previous prime-minister' widow and daughter into, it, too is evidence to
this. Maybe you could compare the number of women in politics, over here, to
those in India. Maybe you could come up with something more realistic.

Politics, in general is difficult. The candidates have to go by the mood of
the people, inorder to be elected. Maybe the time was not yet right for that
acceptance. Also, there is alot of mud slinging, and raking up the past and
public reporting of the candidates personal life. Maybe there are a lot of 
women candidates, who just don't want to run, because of the above.  And, 
maybe the women candidate who did run, ran on the wrong ticket. 

|> 
|> Regards,
|> Vivek.
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> vivek@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Vivek R. Prabhu),
|> Systems Engineering Laboratory, Department Of Computer Science, 
|> School Of Engineering, Computer Science And Technology,
|> California State University, Chico, California.

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Sylvia D. D'Cruz