114. Women's Position in Nepal

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114. Women's Position in Nepal

114. Women's Position in Nepal

Nepali society is male-dominated society. The position of women in Nepal is still not as good as that of men. In the Nepali society, women's duty is to look after their children, satisfy their husband's demands and desires and keep the family's status in the society etc. If a woman is not able to give birth to a child, the society hates her. She is regarded as a witch. If she gives birth to only the daughters, the society hates her and says that she has locked the door of the heaven. In the past, their position was more miserable than now. They were used as only a child-birth machine. They had to depend on their husbands. They were kept as like as the slaves.

In some traditional Nepali Society, Woman can not be mature until she gets the experience of child-birth. In the Hindu religion, if she gives birth to a son, but not a daughter, the door of heaven is unlocked for her and she gets salvation. In such a socieiy, if the wife is childless, the husband blames her that it is her own fault. He wants to get remarried. This makes the womın sad because it can not be her defect. Infertility can be found in husband from medical examination. But he traditional society never thinks that male is equally responsible for childlessness. So the people say that the childless woman is useless. They are very much superstitious. They go to the witchdoctors and demand a son from such a woman but they do not go to the doctors because they do not believe in themodern medical science.

The woman who can not bear children is a great problem and a matter of hatred in the traditional Nepali Society. By such hateful freling, her psychology can be disturbed and it becomes disorlered Sometimes, she becomes mad and situation will be critcal. Therefore, the people of traditional Nepali society need god health education.

But after the restoration of democracy in 2046, their position has been changed a little better . Man and woman are regarded as the two sides of a coin. They go to school, campus and the office. Nepalese Constitution has also promised some rights to the woman. They can stand on their own legs. Now they raise their voice for their economic, political and social rights. There are many feminists in Nepal, who try to upset the male-dominated society. But though they can raise the voice for their rights, our constitution has not promised them to contribute economic and political rights as the man have. They can only enjoy the partial rights. Any way, we can say that the position of women in Nepal is better now than was in the past.