By TCN News,
Hyderabad: The National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Lalitha Kumaramangalam on Tuesday said the problems of Muslim women were similar to those belonging to other communities in the country and that the issue was with the non-inclusion of women in various aspects of life.
“In India, women are not given the nutrition they deserve. They are not given the education they deserve. They are not given the recognition at the workplace which they deserve,” Kumaramangalam said while addressing the students and faculty at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) here.
Ms. Lalitha Kumaramangalam addressing the Colloquium.
The Centre for Women’s Studies of MANUU in collaboration with National Commission for Women (NCW) had organised a colloquium on ‘Mainstreaming the Indian Muslim Women – The Way Forward.’
The NCW chairperson pushed for value education in the country which is missing from schools today. “Integrity, honesty and talent are qualities which all religions talk about. Schools have forgotten to teach these. They foster competition but do not teach to work in teams.
Muslim women, like all other women, want to be employable and economically independent, she said, adding, the country cannot progress if women, who account for roughly half of India’s population, are left behind, a release said.
A view of Audience.
NCW member Shamina Shafiq said that problems of women were the same but the solutions were different. She noted that commitment to tackle issues in South India was more than that in the North.
Delivering her keynote address, Professor Amina Kishore indicated that it was unfair to hold a patriarchal system in Islam or the Muslim clergy alone responsible for problems of women. She said that the “language between genders needs to change” even as she pointed out that the feminism in the “western construct” did not suit India, Abid Abdul Wasay, MANUU Public relations officer said in the release.