Will the UP Women바카라s Commission's proposed set of recommendations actually ensure women바카라s safety or provide more employment opportunities for women?
The Uttar Pradesh Women바카라s Commission has proposed a set of recommendations for 바카라women바카라s safety바카라, including banning male tailors from taking women바카라s measurements, male trainers from instructing female clients at the gym, and male workers from attending to female customers at beauty parlours.
While speaking to ANI, the UP Women바카라s Commission chairperson Babita Chauhan said the recommendations were based on complaints she had received from women, who had felt uncomfortable or experienced harassment at gyms, parlours and boutiques, and that implementing the proposed recommendations would ensure women's safety but also promote employment for women.
바카라When women go to the gym, some of them are blackmailed, after their photos are taken. Or they experience 'bad touch' but are not able to tell anyone because they have no options. My only request is that there should be female trainers along with male trainers at every gym,바카라 Chauhan said. She pointed out that 90 per cent of the tailors at boutiques are men and they are the ones who take the measurements of female customers. 바카라Keep (employ) male tailors if you want but for measurement keep females. This isn바카라t our culture or tradition,바카라 she said in a video interview with ANI.
Chauhan thinks a beauty parlour is another setting where women can face harassment if the workers are male. 바카라Earlier, 90 per cent of the workers used to be female, but in this new era we see more boys than girls. Nowadays bridal makeup is also being done by men..." She suggests that if women want to avail services from a male worker either at a beauty parlour or a gym, they should give it in writing so the 바카라government or administration cannot be held responsible바카라 in case of a mishap.
Citing the recommendations as 바카라patriarchal바카라 and 바카라atrocious바카라, women바카라s rights activist Brinda Adige said the proposed guidelines were akin to those enforced by the Taliban. 바카라This is not going to enhance women바카라s safety, this is going to segregate women and continuously send the message that women have no agency,바카라 she says. 바카라The recommendations blatantly avoid all the guarantees given to women by our Constitution that we have the right to choose and decide what we want to do.바카라 She also pointed out that it is unacceptable to generalise that all men are 바카라leching after women바카라.
Adige says the recommendations are not the best way to enhance women's employment as claimed. She says that women바카라s employment shouldn바카라t be at the cost of skills and delivery of effective efficient services. "If there바카라s a woman tailor who바카라s going to make a shoddy blouse, am I going to give my blouse to her just because she is a woman? If a woman gym trainer is not good at her job or is not up to the market standards, will I go to her?바카라
Adige believes such rules will neither be fair to male workers, who would lose their female clientele or to female customers, who would be forced to go to women simply because of their gender.
Shonee Kapoor, Co-founder of Sahodar, a men바카라s rights group, thinks the UP Women바카라s Commission바카라s recommendations are "regressive바카라. The legal consultant who counsels people suffering from misuse of rape and matrimonial laws, says the recommendations are like the 바카라cracker ban바카라, impossible to implement on the ground level. 바카라These are not implementable; these will be provisions that the police and NGOs use to extort money from men in these trades because I think the gap is too big to be filled. There aren't enough trained women barbers or tailors," he said.
Shonee Kapoor believes the move will create 바카라chaos바카라 with a huge number of tailors becoming unemployed . 바카라If we are considering these recommendations then we should pass a law that males and females should not interact ever, wouldn바카라t that be ultimate women바카라s safety? No marriages, no kids!바카라 he says.
According to the 2022 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, UP saw the highest number of cases filed under crime against women which includes rape, cruelty by husbands, domestic violence, kidnapping and sexual harassment. Between 2020 and 2022, the cases went up from 49, 385 to 65, 743. Of the total cases recorded in India, UP accounted for 13.29 per cent in 2020 and 14.76 per cent in 2022.
Adige rightly points out that the 바카라police, prosecution, and courts바카라 need to take far more substantial steps than what the proposed recommendations suggest.