The report said all countries in South Asia, with the exception of Afghanistan, were a better place for women than India, with Sri Lanka (75) topping them all. Nepal ranked 102nd and Bangladesh 111th.
The annual U.N. report assesses how well countries world-wide are performing on human development indicators like health, education and income.
The gender inequality index measures the loss in a country’s progress and human development because of gender inequality in three sectors: reproductive health, women empowerment and labor market participation.
The report notes that “gender inequality is especially tragic not only because it excludes women from basic social opportunities, but also because it gravely imperils the life prospects of future generations.”
India ranks low partly because of its skewed sex ratio, with only 914 females every 1000 males, according to Indian government data. Indian families often prefer boys to girls, and female feticide is tragically common.”
Times of India , in collaboration with IMRB had conducted Survey on Women on the occasion of the Women’s Day and had published the results with its comments.
This survey is reported to have been done in Six Cities of India.
Let’s assume the Survey is scientific ,which I doubt ,because of the sample size area and interpretation.
1.64% of Women feel Unsafe in the City.
2.60 % of Women step out side with company.
When one looks at the figures, it is evident one feels safe if they go out with company
.Only 4% are do not seem to subscribe to this view.
(One never knows whether both the responses are from the same person).
So if you feel safe with company why not opt for it in the interest of your safety.
Complaint about Public Places.
45% say Toilets must be clean.
This applies to men as well.
Cleanliness is not Gender Specific unless if people are not clean.
Under sub clause in the same finding, 42% work for Financial Independence: 12% for Money
So it is all a question of being not committed for the family- “I would like to be independent of every one’-
Translate into common parlance ‘I am not sure of the relationship and I want to be independent’
If the spouse also thinks the same way, then Marriage and Family go out of the window.
Who takes the decision on Big Investments?
39% say Husband.
Wait till you hear this data under the heading.
Who decides on Savings?
Woman decide.
40%
Who decides on method of Contraception?
Women 21%
You decide on savings, contraception and yet say Husband decides on Big Investments.
It is like a man saying ‘I take all major decisions like obeying wife while she does all unimportant things like finance; raising kids!
Either the Survey is skewed, or did not ask the relevant questions ….
Or Women being Women?
What is Women’s Day ,r Mother’s Day, father’s Day?
As if they no longer remain one on the other days!
Times of India and IMRB Survey Report.
Women’s Freedom.
Bangalore is safe, but not safe enough. At least, that seems to be what the majority of women living in the city believe, based on a study commissioned by The Times of India. The study, which is based on a survey of 900 women conducted by IMRB in six cities across the country, looked at various issues faced by women, beginning with safety, services available, gender issues at home and the workplace, health and financial issues. It shows that while women feel relatively safer in Bangalore compared to other cities, in absolute terms, opinions are divided. An overwhelming 64% of the city’s women said they do not feel safe in the city after sunset, and only 17% said they felt safe “at any time of the day.”
Some parts of the city are perceived to be less safe than others. TheMarathahalli Ring Road area, for instance, is perceived to be either “unsafe for women” or “very unsafe for women” by more than a third of those surveyed. “The stretch of Outer Ring Road between Marathahalli and Bellandur, where I live, is definitely underlit and possibly unsafe. The few times I’ve had to wait alone at Marathahalli junction for a bus or auto haven’t been pleasant,” says Ankita Sharma, who works in an HR firm in Brookefield and travels by public transport. Sharma says there are no street lights in this area and the operators of private vehicles soliciting passengers can get rude and hostile. “After the Delhi rape incident, I became especially wary of these private vehicles. I don’t know if any of them have proper licenses and whether the police keeps an eye on them,” she adds.
Other areas where women felt “unsafe” or “very unsafe” included Kengeri Road and the stretch between BEL Road and Vidyaranyapura. Even the morning stroll, so long a part of the Bangalorean’s day, seems to have become fraught. More than half the women (53%) IMRB spoke to felt unsafe during their morning walks. An increasing number of women feel so insecure that they have begun contemplating carrying a weapon – 42% of the respondents said that they “felt the need to carry a weapon/article of self-defence”
Definition is Girl friend is one who happens to be a girl( Am I right?)
Sex is one of the most powerful instincts of beings,(Survival,Thirst,Hunger being others in the order of priority),and the terms Love,Affection etc are the cloaks in which it hides.
Sex is associated with survival of the species and hence Nature has given its attribute as uncontrollable(easily I mean).
Prudes may hasten to blame me for clubbing Love .Affection in this category;let me add that Sex is not a sin but obsession with it is.
How does this happen?
At the metal level, though felicitated by culture ‘Lifestyle and environment, it has some thing to do with ‘what’-I do not know.
One thing is for sure.
The Bard got it Right.
‘Whoever Loved that Loved not at first sight’
First Love remains ever green forever.
I can vouch for it.
One sees some one and that’s it.
You don’t know nor analyse it.
If you do, you lose it, I mean, the pleasure of it.
As I am fond of saying, don’t analyse feelings, go with it if you want to live.
The problems associated with real quarrels among people during Love need not be taken seriously and if the bonding is natural it will have a Natural death.
Most of the time you lose your Love, the pain lingers throughout your Life.
Being the puzzle it is Life has some course for us.
The memories always make you happy.
Losing in Love is also a pleasure for we do not know what would have happened if we had been successful, possible we could have killed the Love.
I can visualize people smirking, ‘Being philosophical,as you could do nothing about it’
Be it.
It makes me in control of myself and at the same time be happy.
Now on to something light.
It is always a pleasure to see young ones express in Love and especially so when they express it.
The notes they write may not be grammatically correct nor elegant in expression,
The way the girl looks at the Boy when she thinks none is looking at her may sound childish,
The way the Boys show off in front of their girl friends,
The non sense (to others) they speak endless, of late on Mobile,
The airs they put on as if the World exists only for them,
Well, who cares!
Pleasure.
Wish people remain that way.
Note by Girl FriendLove Note.Breakfast by Girl friend
Here are ten women who came first Ten in Google search in 2012.
‘If you made an educated guess that Kate Upton was the most Google-searched woman on the Internet this year, you would be horribly mistaken.
While it may have appeared to be the Year of Kate Upton behind closed doors between you and your computer monitor, she’s not even in the top 10! Inconceivable. (Here is a photo of Kate Upton to make up for the fact that she isn’t in this slideshow. You’re welcome.)
Some of the results will delight you, some may surprise you, and at least two will disgust you — but numbers just don’t lie.
Here are the top 10 most searched women of 2012:
Most Google Search womenMost Search Google womenMost Googled women
Drinking,Gambling and Prostitution have been in existence since time immemorial.
Prostitution is a trade which while being vehemently criticized in Public , is secretly adored.
Barring a few cases , women enter in to this harrowing world because of poverty,ill-treatment ,neglect and exploitation by men and women for money.
More serious is the crime of sexual misconduct.perversions,adultery, living in relationships.
These vile acts are not seriously looked as one would at Prostitution.
“Michael Glawogger does for documentary film what Ryszard Kapuściński did for journalism: He reinvents it as something immersive, meditative, and poetic. His films condense themes of staggering complexity—economics, labor, sex—into meticulous vignettes of everyday life. Although he has occasionally been derided for aestheticizing poverty, there’s little doubt that his audacious style is compelling. Nobody who has seen Megacities, his 1998 film about globalization, can forget those feverish New York City scenes of a hustler shooting dope and robbing his john at knifepoint, just as nobody who has watched Workingman’s Death (2005), his portrait of contemporary physical labor, can shake its images of a Nigerian slaughterhouse awash in blood.”
A prostitute in Reynosa, Mexico, waits for customers to drive by. A tattoo of Santa Muerte—Saint Death—is visible near her left shoulder and offers protection from violence. (Photo by Maya Goded)
The women of La Zona pose for men circling the lot. Once they’ve lured a customer, women negotiate a price and retreat into the motel-like rooms. (Photo by Maya Goded)
Like many industries in Mexico, prostitution is often controlled by cartels or the mafia. Pimps in La Zona typically live outside of the brothe
Look at the Pathetic look in eyes tinged with desperation, pain, self revulsion and disgust!
“I recently spoke with Michael Glawogger about the challenges of capturing such a clandestine subculture. The accompanying photographs are from the companion book to Whores’ Glory,published by Orange Press. Mother Jones: The locations you filmed pose intense logistical challenges for a documentarian, let alone one who is also taking photographs. How did you balance the two?
Michael Glawogger: Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores’ Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months.
MJ: Did the women respond differently to being photographed than to being filmed?
MG: Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called “15 minutes of fame.” But prostitutes don’t want that. They know about the internet, they know their boyfriend can see them, or their parents, so overcoming those boundaries is very tough. I’ve made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.
MJ: How did you do that?
MG: I had to first convince them that I wasn’t a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them they wouldn’t necessarily care for or who would victimize them. You know, journalists come and go. If they come twice, it’s a lot. But I come 10 times and hang out with them and share stuff. If you connect with someone just once, that’s something. But if you can connect twice, that’s something else.
MJ: The film is so lush and cinematic. Is it your ambition as a documentarian to restore beauty to lives that many outsiders might see as ugly?
MG: As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I’m Platonic in that sense. I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they’re beautiful, they’re beautiful. I don’t make them that way. I don’t aestheticize anything. I don’t even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That’s their job and their money. In a way, I had the best makeup artists, hairdressers, and art designers in the world.
MJ: How does being a man change the way these women respond to you?
MG: Whenever a man enters the realm of prostitutes he’s always regarded as a possible customer. If you enter as a woman, you’re regarded as somebody who could be in the same place. Being a man brings the perspective of flirtation.
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