Gender inclusive public services

The government should take women-friendly initiatives for ensuring gender inclusive public services

Speakers at a meeting in the capital Sunday rightly suggested ensuring inclusive gender responsive public services in the country to establish rights of women in every sphere of society. According to a report in this newspaper on Monday, women need easy access to all sorts of public services to ensure their dignified life. Women constitute half of the total population of the country and development of the country greatly depends on them. It is a fact that they are going ahead defying various hostile circumstances confronting them.

The women of the country have made significant contributions to development during the last few decades. Yet scores of women are suffering due to violence perpetrated on them by their male counterparts. Vast womenfolk in rural areas of the country are still leading sub-human life due to grinding poverty, illiteracy, curse of early marriage, pangs of premature motherhood and dowry. Many hapless women have to earn for survival. Gender discrimination has bedeviled many a woman. Vast womenfolk in rural areas of the country are still leading sub-human life due to abysmal poverty, illiteracy, curse of early marriage, pangs of premature motherhood and dowry.

In many cases fair wages and remunerations elude women although they do their assigned tasks more sincerely and devotedly than their male counterparts. Why this disparity in payment of wages? The government should take women-friendly initiatives for ensuring inclusive gender responsive public services, which eventually would boost the development process in the country. Public service providing organizations should be more accountable and transparent so that women get easy access to the public services. The unemployed educated young women should be imparted training, particularly on computer operating and ICT, throughout the country for expanding their job opportunities. Those who are not educated should be given training on poultry farming, cattle rearing and similar other jobs. In this way an acute unemployment problem facing them can be solved greatly.

Small women entrepreneurs should be provided with loans on easy terms and conditions.  If it is done they can contribute positively to GDP growth. It is the responsibility of the authorities concerned for ensuring proper wages for them. The NGOs, community leaders, human rights’ activists and religious leaders can come forward for ensuring equal wages for women labourers. For achieving the MDG and SDG there is no alternative to improving the lot of women in a big way.

 

Gender inclusive public services

The government should take women-friendly initiatives for ensuring gender inclusive public services

Speakers at a meeting in the capital Sunday rightly suggested ensuring inclusive gender responsive public services in the country to establish rights of women in every sphere of society. According to a report in this newspaper on Monday, women need easy access to all sorts of public services to ensure their dignified life. Women constitute half of the total population of the country and development of the country greatly depends on them. It is a fact that they are going ahead defying various hostile circumstances confronting them. The women of the country have made significant contributions to development during the last few decades. Yet scores of women are suffering due to violence perpetrated on them by their male counterparts. Vast womenfolk in rural areas of the country are still leading sub-human life due to grinding poverty, illiteracy, curse of early marriage, pangs of premature motherhood and dowry. Many hapless women have to earn for survival. Gender discrimination has bedeviled many a woman. Vast womenfolk in rural areas of the country are still leading sub-human life due to abysmal poverty, illiteracy, curse of early marriage, pangs of premature motherhood and dowry. In many cases fair wages and remunerations elude women although they do their assigned tasks more sincerely and devotedly than their male counterparts. Why this disparity in payment of wages? The government should take women-friendly initiatives for ensuring inclusive gender responsive public services, which eventually would boost the development process in the country. Public service providing organizations should be more accountable and transparent so that women get easy access to the public services. The unemployed educated young women should be imparted training, particularly on computer operating and ICT, throughout the country for expanding their job opportunities. Those who are not educated should be given training on poultry farming, cattle rearing and similar other jobs. In this way an acute unemployment problem facing them can be solved greatly. Small women entrepreneurs should be provided with loans on easy terms and conditions. If it is done they can contribute positively to GDP growth. It is the responsibility of the authorities concerned for ensuring proper wages for them. The NGOs, community leaders, human rights activists and religious leaders can come forward for ensuring equal wages for women labourers. For achieving the MDG and SDG there is no alternative to improving the lot of women in a big way.