Glass ceiling: ‘Visibility is not equality, symbolism is not power’

Emphasising connected the request for hospitable spaces for the information of mean and bonzer women successful nationalist life, women politicians connected Saturday opined that the conception of solid ceiling was inaccurate and flawed. “It is simply a labyrinth. Let america not confuse visibility with equality, symbolism with power,” said Sagarika Ghose, a parliamentarian from the All India Trinamool Congress. Aparajita Sarangi from the BJP, Dr. Thamizhachi Thangapandian from DMK and Ms Ghose were successful speech with elder writer T.M. Veeraraghav for a sheet treatment connected ‘Glass Ceiling Shattered: Women leaders shaping Parliament’ connected the concluding time of The Hindu Huddle successful Bengaluru.

The leaders dissected the reasons surrounding the historically marginalised information of women, the interaction of deep-rooted patriarchy. They besides debated astir the delimitation measure and its linkage to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. While Ms. Sarangi appealed to everyone to shun the cognition of absorption towards the measurement taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Ms Ghose asked if the Indian electorate genuinely wanted to walk connected sending 800 members to the Lok Sabha. All the panelists opened that though women’s votes had assumed much value than ever before, it had not reflected successful an accrued governmental practice for them.

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“This is not a men vs women issue. It is our corporate work to spot that the solid ceiling breaks,” Ms. Sarangi said. In a profoundly engaging session, the leaders quoted thinkers from Aristole, Pythagoras, Mahatma Gandhi to Maya Angelou, to emphasise connected structural inequality and the request for a alteration successful societal attitude.

‘Son-worshipping culture’

Ms. Thamizhachi argued that the societal civilization needed to change, adding that we continued to beryllium a ‘sun-worshipping and son-worshipping culture’. They said that the parties should springiness much tickets to women.

The leaders said that the civilization successful the full portion was afloat of examples of ‘female accession to antheral martyrdom’. Ms. Ghose observed that her’s was the lone enactment to person bucked the inclination successful South Asia wherever respective women leaders had been seen inheriting the antheral martyrdom. She besides highlighted that portion different parties had small practice of women successful politics, the TMC has 37% elected representatives.

Tamil Nadu’s progressive culture

Ms. Thamizhachi spoke of the unsocial and progressive civilization of Tamil Nadu, adding that the past of Self Respect Movement had fixed abstraction to women to look astatine the satellite for themselves. “In the little travelled arena too, Tamil Nadu had the archetypal pistillate priestess,” she said. Quoting Laura Liswood, she added, “There’s nary specified happening arsenic a solid ceiling for women. It’s conscionable a heavy furniture of men.”

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