Similarities Between Ram And Rose In The Rich Like Us By Nayantarasahgal

They are not acquiescent. They are not guilty about their attitudes and affairs. Shobha de’s women are more grown-up than their mates. However in their own world, her males have implicit code of apathetic masculinity in order to identify themselves in their relationship to women whose code does not guarantee success. Men appear to be very passive in response to women: they are insensitive or indifferent, unwilling or unable to act or to undertake responsibility for the manner things work out. Although in the Indian male- dominated society, women are disregarded by their husbands but Shobha De’s women are undoubtedly different. They have the skill to loathe the indifferent and callous attitude of their mates. Men in the Shobha De’s novels are stereotyped and traditional. They are not the perfect husbands as they are inadequate and incomplete. They are unable to dominate their wives. Shobha de has offered men resorting to some defense processes against their self- reliant and self- confident wives but more often than not they do not succeed. They are dreadfully endangered by their females. De’s women obviously stand their dominance over their male counterpart. They can effortlessly outplay and checkmate all her male counterparts with a tactic which seems afar the male conception as it is too subtle and maneuver a

Rajam Krishnan occupies an important place among Tamil women novelists. She was born in 1925 Musiri, Trichy district of Tamil Nadu. Her childhood and early adult life were remarkably traditional. Her education was interrupted by her marriage at the age of fourteen. Rajam Krishnan writes that it was “unthinkable that a girl brought up in a conventional middle-class Brahmin family in a village would become a writer”- especially in her case, since she was the youngest member of a joint family. “I had to toil with humility and perseverance, obeying all my husband’s people, to earn a good name and add to my family’s honour and pride…I was calm outside, discharging my duties in the house, but there was a turmoil inside.” Things eased a little within the household when, in 1950, one

In all areas of life and society the treatment and well being of women have always been challenged. In many religions the role and status of its women are usually overwhelmed by the actions and roles of its men this inequality of religions between male and female allows these feelings and ideology of which sex is superior or inferior to bleed into a society’s culture thus shaping their treatment of their men and women.

The females in The Red Lotus of Chastity and The Thousand and One Nights struggled against ideas of chastity that were created by a male dominated society. They had to over come the cultural ideals of what women should be and do. Devasmita and Shahrazad both decided to take matters into their own hands and not fall to male authority or their tricks. The themes of these novels are the feminine empowerment, loyalty and devotion.

She is not delighted at the prospect for she would be a wife to each brother for a year from the oldest to the youngest successively. She feels like a communal drinking cup being passed from one to the other. To make matters worse she is blessed with a boon that each time she would go to a new husband she would be a virgin again. This she added seemed like it was specially designed for her husbands’ needs but not for her own. She blames Kunti for landing her in this miserable situation. However, she fulfils the sentence. Therefore, one sees her bound by duty to her elders’ wishes and sacrifices her

Over the course of history, gender inequalities have been a prevalent issue amongst countries around the world. The notion, women are inferior to men has shaped their treatment in all aspects of life. Women were subjected to a patriarchal role in society, the men worked and women took care of domestics to some degree greater or lesser depending the country they resided in. In the late 19th and early 20th century women started rising up against male dominated societies in feminist movements. These movements were campaigns and reform plans to combat issues of equal pay, sexual violence, and denial of suffrage, reproductive rights, equal job opportunities and property rights. Thus observing women in Great Britain and Saudi Arabia today one can see how the role women play in society has dramatically changed from 1800s till now.

In today’s society, women impact the world around them in many different and significant ways. Some women influence their communities with great force while others never notice their true importance in their societies. In India, Mishri Yadav is bound to her life as a modest, confined woman who cannot talk to men and must remain in the shadows. In the United States, Michele Noonan is bound to her life as a caretaker for her family who can express herself in whichever way she feels. These two defined people show the importance of how women are viewed extremely different as their countries vary. Some women, such as those in India, are viewed as lower than men with less value, knowledge, and potential. These places do not believe that women contain

Even though we live in a modern world with many technological advancements, women oppression is still a plague around the world that seems to never stop or end in many different societies a woman is only accepted or considered good not when she speaks up or contribute to something that is against this but when she accepts this oppression and stay quit. In Woman at point zero, Nawal Al Saadawi has expressed her concern about women's oppression. In her piece of work, there were many attempts to raise awareness to this issue by giving an example of a woman’s life that was ruined by it. This issue should bring women together since they share the same problem and help each other and empower themselves in order to fight against this discrimination

The women community has faced some harsh times, even to this day, they still face harsh obstacles that lets them not able to improve themselves from a male dominated world. The notion that women from the common knowledge, most believe that women should stay home, take care of the children and cook breakfast, lunch, or dinner. In this day of age, women barely have any freedom with gender discrimination - involving around the gender gap, being fairly and proportionally represented in the media, occupational sex segregation - sexual violence, getting blamed and shamed, the lack of basic feminine hygiene in the American prison systems, restriction to contraceptives, political agenda depriving women of essential health services, objectification

There is no hint of displeasure on her face as she diligently carries out her duty as an ‘ideal wife’. Also why should she have any objection for ‘as long as she lives, a woman’s God and master is her husband’. This scene emphasises the nature of a traditional marital relationship in Indian culture and the presumed duties of a woman as a wife. The text of the Ramayana is considered to be sacred and is followed religiously by people. If it happens to call a woman’s husband her master and God, its influence on the psyche of the people, especially the women, is self

Throughout history and today, we women are constant victims of stereotyping from our society. Certain “rules” have to be followed and certain “ideal” women images have to be kept. We are raised in a way to fill certain position where the society wants us to be and as a result, the opportunities are always limited for us and ideas of our importance in the society are diminishing. Even though women gained some independence, where women can work and take various position in society, the society’s idea of typical role of women never seem to change.

Mistry demonstrates how the characters’ defiance of traditional Indian gender roles creates a line of causalities that ultimately determine the character’s path. Mistry contextualizes these gender roles when he describes that, “It was hard for [wives] not to be resentful - the birth of daughters often brought them beatings from their husbands and their husband's families” (Mistry 100). The author includes this quote to demonstrate the considerably large extent to which males hold power and priority in Indian society, thus making women nearly impotent with the exception of Dina, which may explain why the author gives her a central role in the novel. Therefore, the defiance of gender roles - which the society in which they live considers as a crime since the values of misogyny have invaded their worldview - is dangerous, but represented in the character of Dina Dalal. Dina was quickly widowed, but Mistry depicts her as a strong woman who struggles to keep her independence in a society that expects her to be subordinate to another man. Even after many years since her husband’s death, Dina’s brother, Nusswan, compares her life to “watching

We also see that in this novel there is a Patriarchal society. A patriarchy is when a male holds the power and control of property. Lala ram is an example of this he is the head of a Hindu family in Mano Majra. The women of the house have no power, we see this when the women informed the dacoits that ‘I tell you Lalaji is not in. He has taken the keys with them. We have nothing in the house.” Other examples are when Nooran goes unwillingly with her father instead of informing her father of her desire to

And when I examined the lives of our women, I understood the reason. From the moment they wake up, they set to work both in their homes and in the fields. At home they are pestered by their husbands and children, in the fileds there is back- breaking work besides the harassment of the landlord. When they come home in the evening, there is no time even to draw breath. And once they have collected water and firewood, cooked a kanji and fed their hungry husband and children, even then they cant go to bed in peace and sleep until dawn. Night after night they must give in to their husbands’ pleasure. Even if a woman’s body is wracked with pain, the husband is bothered only with his own satisfaction. Women are overwhelmed and crushed by their own disgust, boredom and exhaustion, because of all this. The stronger ones somehow manage to survive all this. The ones who don’t have the mental strength are totally oppressed; they succumb to mental ill- health and act as if they are possessed by peys.

The oppression of women is based on false assumption and preconceived notions by the male domination world, has been obvious and responsible for paving the way for serious gender issues to emerge. Due to the narrow realms of activity in society, deprived from essential human rights, restricted educations scope, open to unhealthy physical and mental abuse, this society has not given women the opportunity to rise to their full potential. The impact of gender discrimination has not only affected the future of the women today but it has resulted in the slow progress of human mind in general.