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Celebrating Women’s Day In Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter in Kathmandu
March 8, 2010: In Nepal, ‘March 8’: the Women’s Day is the state holiday; so most of the male state employees either must be playing cards, some must be meeting with friends and relatives whereas most of the female state employees must be cleaning house, doing laundry and daily chores leisurely. Other millions of Nepalese women must be doing the regular domestic businesses. Millions of them must have gone to the nearby forest to collect fodders or firewood; for them the women’s day does not make any difference.
Some of the women activists have celebrated the Women’s Day writing articles and publishing in the state-run newspapers and private newspapers for making the Nepalese women aware of the importance of the Women’s Day; others have spoken on the state-run Radio Nepal and privately owned FM Radios thus meeting the formalities they have to do.
Male Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare and his deputy again a man have written and published the congratulatory notes to the Nepalese women. Only the Secretary to the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare is the female member of the Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare. So, the male ministers are responsible for doing the businesses of women in the male-dominated society.
It is not surprising that the male ministers do not enforce the laws, rules and regulations concerning the women’s rights. So, despite the equal rights of women to the parental property, parents don’t share their parental property with their female offspring. Some parents bold enough to share the parental property have to face the litigation according to the recent news in the state-run newspaper ‘Gorkhapatra’.
The most encouraging thing concerning the women’s empowerment in Nepal is about thirty percent of the members of the Constituent Assembly are the women. These women members of the Constituent Assembly will certainly voice for the equal rights to be made in the new constitution being written currently.
Nepalese political parties have made rules for making one-third of women in their leadership positions. However, most of the political parties have failing in enforcing the rules.
