What exactly is the message National Commission for Women(NCW) has for Indian women is an interesting question! Just a few months back, the NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma made news for advising women that being called sexy could be taken as a complement rather than as an affront.
Well here is a complete about turn from the same Mamta ‘foot-in-the-mouth’ Sharma now advising women to dress carefully in order to avoid attacks on them. News below:
In India, it is a proud moment when there is a news reported of women standing equal shoulder with men and taking up traditional men’s jobs – like airline pilot, in military, auto-driver, taxi driver, and so on; but then their jobs are labelled as ‘risky’ and dangerous when they do these job in same conditions as men do and it does not seem so appealing anymore. Is not women taking up risky jobs a small cost to pay for women empowerment? Equal pay for equal work also means Equal work for equal pay! News below:
Please read the news story which follows later. We just have an interesting question for the sexy (read: beautiful, blah blah) people at National Confusion for Women (NCW):
1. What is your formal submission to lawmakers on proposed sexual harassment at workplace bill? That the word sexy when used for a co-worker will not be considered sexual harassment but a compliment! Since you are concerned about protecting only women under the bill and not men, the question is especially relevant to your constituency as mandated by the NCW Act.