आज प्रकासित Republica Nepal मा मेरो महिला सशक्तिकरण सम्बन्धि लेख । एकपटक सबैले यो मेरो लेख पढेर प्रतिकृया दिनुहोला। तपाईं को प्रतिकृया ले आगामी दिन मा लेख लेख्ने हौसला प्रदान गर्ने छ । http://myrepublica.com/opinion/story/37590/miles-to-go.html

Below are my inputs:

## Aren’t there already enough plans and policies to eliminate gender disparities ? Please correct me if I’m wrong. IMO, we should be mainly focused on  access to education and health irrespective to genders. If people are well educated, they will be independent and shouldn’t beg for such special policies to cater their request.

## I don’t think we need a special policies for women so that they can access to political power or physical assets as you mentioned on the article. Leadership role is not something that we can provide, it is “intrinsic”. People should set an example and then can become leaders. In order to set an example or become a role model in a society, education is a key or at least it plays a significant role.

## Bottom-line: The focus should be more on access to education and health which will provide basic platform for people (both men or women)  to grow and explore opportunities. With the basic education, people can themselves decide what to do and what not.

## Having said that, we can definitely spread the message not to restrict any children going to school (specially on villages). Instead on focusing on the policies, it’s better to provide awareness to general people which I think is more effective. We should first start with one village and then expand it.  There are different ways to reach out to people .

- Media (TV or Radio): For ex: Meena cartoon.  We can always debate on the fact that the people on villages don’t even have access to TV.

- Specific camps designed for villages to raise the awareness.

- Others: ??

## Please provide a reference or source when you are talking about numbers. For ex:

- According to available data, female literacy is only 55.1 percent in Nepal”

- An experiment with investment firms in the 1990s showed that 45 percent more men, compared to women

Note: There are different factors associated to above  (health and education) which I have not put in details. (Projects, financial support for the implementing the projects to reach out to general people etc). I can get lots of hate comments on this thread but all I wanted was to voice my thought. I’m not saying there is a perfect solution but brainstorming on these kind of discussion helps me as a reader and I hope the same for others too.
Have a good day ahead.

 

@no_more_crush, I agree with most of the things you said, especially about providing proper references for the data in the article. But regarding "policies catered to the women in Nepal", I think your opinion will change if you watch the following video

http://sajha.com/sajha/html/index.cfm?ThreadID=116883

@yadavanu, Glad to see you speaking up for the oppressed women in Nepal.

My inputs:
I also agree with no_more_crush regarding the reference for the data. You cannot just throw numbers without having something to back it up.
Please try and focus on one thing. I know we can bring change but god damn, you are all over the place. You can't expect change by just writing a piece. You talk about women power, President of Nepal is a women. Also according to our constitution
Under Article 63 (3) of the Constitution, the Constituent Assembly shall be comprised of 240 members elected from each of the 240 single-member constituencies with the first-past-the-post system, 335 members elected from political parties through the list proportional representation system and 26 members appointed by the Council of Ministers. Women must constitute at least 33% of candidates for the first-past-the-post system and the proportional representation system combined (Article 63 (5)).
33% of the candidates must be women. Compare to Nepal, USA only has 19.5%-21% female in national parliaments. source:http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm
IMO, Education should be the major focus if you want to see change

BTW nice pictures!

How about young oppressed Nepali women like archana paneru and others? Any thoughts?

Thank you all for Wonderfull inputs. Inputs like this motivates me to keep working. Discussion activities encourage critical thinking. Change Doesn't Happen Overnight so we need take only one step at a time to achieve the goal.