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Women of India - 'Speak up' ; Women equality from all walks of life (Women safety from childhood to adults; 70% mistreatment within families - issues which do not come out; women rights suppressed in subtle ways in different walks of life personal to corporate settings)

“A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.

Likewise, she is never less.

Equality is a given.

A woman is human.”

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Gender discriminations are found in India even today.The paradoxical situation has such that she was sometimes concerned as Goddess and at other times merely as slave.
Despite the fact that alot of women achievers like durga shakti nagpal who fought not only to remove the deep rooted corruption but also against the but also against the male dominated world,
Mary Kom who fought against all odds to achieve success, Arundhati Bhattacharya who is the first woman to lead the 206 year old bank.

Despite a slew of laws to prevent female foeticide and schemes to encourage families to have girl child, the ratio has declined from 927 females against 1,000 males in 2001 to 914, a matter of grave concern for a country. would the extra 9.86 percent men remain umarried or would they flee abroad to look for wives?
When will the humanity understand that god has created a balance, which if broken would do no good to anyone.
Even the most horrific of crimes are shortlived, except in the memories of the victims and their families, who are left to fight their long battles for justice, which, more often than not, is denied to them.
Shocking new atrocities are reported almost everyday.
- a 10-month-old raped by a neighbour in Delhi; an 18-month-old raped and abandoned on the streets in Calcutta; a 14-year-old raped and murdered in a police station in Uttar Pradesh; a husband facilitating his own wife's gang rape in Howrah; a 65-year-old grandmother raped in

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