The Hindu : Gender equality

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Friday, Mar 12, 2004

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Gender equality

Sir, — Suvarna Rani Gandham's article, `Women takes strides, men look on benignly' (March 9), though written with good intentions, questions the true sense of gender equality.

If intellectuals like the writer herself feel that by depending on the money earned by a wife makes husband a subordinate, there is nothing wrong in most of the people in present day India believing that men are superior to women.

Varudhini,
Hanamkonda, A.P.

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Sir, — It is true that men are willing to give an opportunity to women in the modern world, but that does not mean they are making way for women or the other way round.

In today's world, what matters most is the opportunity and whoever gets it first will become the earning member of the family.

Shantan Reddy,
Jangaon, A.P.

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Sir, — I would like to remind the writer that earning for her family is not a burden for a woman; it brings in added responsibility and respect.

Soniaa,
Hyderabad

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