Are Women Averse to Politics?

Nation without politics is incomplete,the reason being, politics decides the future of nation.Women by and large are either averse to politics or wish to remain apolitical.Until a few years ago,i had a notion that educated(academically) women are political or not politically averse.Nonetheless,after many observations and interactions,i realised:Women in general are apolitical.Even educated(academically) women occupying high position in their respective professional lives are politically ignorant.One might argue that women equals men in different ways.Yes,it could be true.But while psychobabbling on gender equality and reservation,why aren't we discussing the political awareness of women?Likewise,while addressing the empowerment,why do we fail to discuss the ground realities from where the real empowerment has to embark on?Even though the government lays much emphasis on educating a girl child by implementing various schemes,the education in the long run,haven't culminated in a more impressive female political participation and awareness.

Perhaps the established gender norms,religious cult and other cultural ideologies that were followed might have prevented the women coming out of their apolitical nature and those women who were politically aware were looked upon with disdain.Abeit,the contemporary situations are favourable for women.Yet,women prefers to remain either apolitical,politically ignorant or politicallly averse!Considering the status quo of women,it is desideratum to orient themselves politically in order to accomplish minimum political exposure.

The inherent dispassion towards politics and other contemporary issues happening in our society is one of the major reason as to why even in this globalised age women stays politically ignorant.The lame excuses of lack of time or unfavourable environment does not hold good here.We care to spend time for window shopping, choosing matching nail polish and other attires.Our dressing sense are high that we wish to be retain the tag of being fastidious!Regrettably,we are not choosy when the subject is politics or democracy.With utmost care and devotion we spend time on interiors and furnishings of an apartment,or we would try something that is labelled as latest by companies;but we don't bother to choose appropriate leaders who would represent us in the parliament or state assembly.Nor we wish to choose the government who shall be ruling us for a fixed period of time and who will be formulating policies that will have a major impact in our lives either directly or indirectly.Moreover women prefers to abstain from all political thoughts and talks.

Women remaining apolitical is not a good symptom.The women reservation bill(with many ill effects) which is going to be implemented is likely to create more chaos in our political system.When we proudly choir that we have a woman president,woman speaker and a woman leader who heads the congress parliamentary party,we forget that we are being awarded with mere concessions.With more than half of the women population remaining politically ignorant,the reservation of 33 percent is going to pose a serious threat.With their half baked knowledge on politics and policy formulation,women are going to occupy the parliamentary seats later.None of this reservation thoughts would have been tabled,had been the women are politically aware.Given proper political orientation,women in our country would have sensed the hidden agenda and other fishy aspects of exclusive reservation.Futhermore numerous feminine voices would have mustered to arrest the concessions showered on them.

It is high time that women in our country realise the importance of politics and must gear themselves politically.Before stepping towards reservation,each and every women in our society got to be politically skewed to prevent stymied outcome arising due to lack of political knowledge and wisdom.

(June 18, 2009)