Forget the streets, women are not even safe at home. Gender violence indoors is akin to an elephant in the room. Still, we lack a uniform redressal mechanism
Better education is not leading to better job opportunities, marriage prospects or freedom of movement
There needs to be robust infrastructure for official statistics so that governments do not suppress inconvenient truths
Even as the Government is hastily drafting the quota Bill for the EWS section, like most predecessors, it has orphaned the Women’s Reservation Bill
Instead of addressing inequality, the 10% quota for economically weaker sections creates huge anxieties