ISO 9001:2015

GENDER JUSTICE: ROAD TO A HUMANE SOCIETY

Dr. Mahendra Thory & Sunita Manda

Gender justice is the antithesis of gender injustice. All known human societies are facing the menace of gender injustice in various forms at different levels resulting from widespread gender inequality and discrimination in the veils of domestic violence and exploitation of women, socio-economic discrimination, the gender based division of labour, socialization on gender lines etc. The irony is that women constitute around half of the humanity but receive a full inhumane treatment full from both women and men. The normative heart of all ethos of a humane society is the belief that nobody should be discriminated on the basis of sex. This paper asserts the basic reasoning that all living beings deserve a humane and civilized treatment. It invokes a fruitful discorse on the issues at the centre of both the phenomena called gender justice and gender injustice. It casts a doubt on the very validity of the notion of man-woman dichotomy and contends that if a fundamental difference lies between man and woman as two different categories, then a single criterion for measuring justice seems incorrect. And, if they are not different from class point of view, and indicates only personal traits, then the very idea of gender justice rested on the aforesaid dichotomy is full of flaws. The paper further puts the point that the very socio-cultural conditioning restricts the possibility of autonomous decision making in patriarchal structures of social existence. Elaborating various constitutional, legal, governmental and civil society measures in realizing the gender justice, present paper ends with a positive note that with multidimensional policy initiatives and concerted efforts by all the stakeholders we can materialize the goal of the constitution of a humane society that can guarantee equality of all kinds among all human beings. In realizing this unfinished project the present paper calls upon all of us to change our mindset and reinvent the relations between man and woman.

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Keywords: Gender Justice, Gender Injustice, Gendered Socialization, Mindset.


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