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Kottayam: Effective implementation of existing legislations would help realise gender equity, according to Lida Jacob, Chairperson, State Commission for Right to Education Act.Inaugurating a three-day national seminar on 'gender and development' organised by School of Gandhian Thought and
Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University here yesterday, she stressed the importance of ensuring female empowerment throughout the country.
Though India has some laws intended to protect interests of women who are still not among the mainstream in society,
implementation of laws is difficult as it is conditioned by strictures, beliefs, rules and norms fixed by male-dominated
religious institutions.
Physical indicators showed Kerala women were far more advanced than their national counterparts. More needed to be
done in this regard as true development could never be ensured without empowering the estimated 50 per cent of the sidelined
population, Jacob said.
Dr Irudaya Rajan of Centre for Development Studies said the real position of women in Kerala was 'pathetic' with new modes
of conflicts affecting them. He urged researchers to address the evolving paradoxes in development and gender equity. PTI
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Development Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University here yesterday, she stressed the importance of ensuring female empowerment throughout the country.
Though India has some laws intended to protect interests of women who are still not among the mainstream in society,
implementation of laws is difficult as it is conditioned by strictures, beliefs, rules and norms fixed by male-dominated
religious institutions.
Physical indicators showed Kerala women were far more advanced than their national counterparts. More needed to be
done in this regard as true development could never be ensured without empowering the estimated 50 per cent of the sidelined
population, Jacob said.
Dr Irudaya Rajan of Centre for Development Studies said the real position of women in Kerala was 'pathetic' with new modes
of conflicts affecting them. He urged researchers to address the evolving paradoxes in development and gender equity. PTI
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