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| forget-me-not |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:03 AM
Every young Nepali girl sweetens her nights with her own dream. She is the most hunted or most sought-after girl. And everybody wants to posses her.
Lately, some educated young Nepalese have generated enthusiasm to work in I/NGOs. Everyday millions of young people flip leading newspapers, searching desperately the call for the recruitment from I/NGOs.
Posts and the required qualifications in bold lettered words, accentuating "females are encouraged to apply" that regularly feature while announcing vacancies bear a sort of gender characterisation. This type of vehemently women empowering call for vacancy injects a note of dreams into those young females who seek "to stand on their own feet".
There are, of course, no two lines of contradiction in making a statement that I/NGOs are fervently active in empowering women and ensuring gender equity. Most of their target beneficiaries have to be women and children. But it seems, whenever the recruitment necessity hits, only these five lettered words "females are encouraged to apply" are strongly remembered, while the ethic of the gender equality of the whole I/NGOs sinks into oblivion.
The CBS weeps the poor literacy rate of us, Nepali women. Not even forty percent of us can read and write. Only few of us have attended universities and a handful of us have obtained higher degrees. Can we women thriving in this darkness of ignorance live up to the brightness of "required qualifications" demanded by these I/NGOs? How many of us are familiar with Pentium 4? How many of us have been in the similar post for more than five years? Our fathers do not send us to attend computer classes. Like our brothers, we do not go to English Boarding Schools hence, we are not proficient in English. After completing higher secondary, many of us teach in poorly equipped schools. The majority of us are not qualified. The majority of us are not encouraged to apply. Who else other than I/NGOs know this better?
Harmless to surmise, only few of us show audacity to apply and those are the luckiest ones. This, however, is not the end of the show. The lives of students, professionals and other academics, if any, are hierarchized by none other than our society. The name of our schools, our universities and our currently working organisations have become an ossified rigid fortuneteller. And our future competes with, of course, our male counterpart.
She has done her MS from London, the capital of UK. She has got three months of training on Social Development of Women and Children from Norway. She is from an English speaking good university. All these eye-widening qualifications ruthlessly disqualify the majority of us. MS from abroad versus Masters from our own country. Special training versus naked practical experience of rural life. The majority of us are brutally suppressed while triumphant sisters working in prestigious I/NGOs study abroad in expensive universities. And only those few number of us, who get the jobs, are better than our sisters. This is an inequity within the gender equity.
Every book written either by Robert Chambers or feminist like Lynn Bennett and Meena Acharya adorn the libraries of I/NGOs. Even more, almost all of those who work in I/NGOs love to portray themselves as gender sensitive and socio-economically focused individuals. Indeed they must be. But blithering not, when they encourage female to apply (or not to apply?).
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| Aliciaa |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:15 AM
Do you mind asking me if you are a gal or a guy?
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| miss_mixery |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:22 AM
'whine, whine, whine, whine' that's all i'm hearing.
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| khimu |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:36 AM
hey aliciaa "Forget-me- not" is a gurl .
i met her lcouple a months ago in tea reception
she is from east-coast somewhere in US.
i,m so buddhu i didn,t ask her name
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| forget-me-not |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:43 AM
Aliciaa,
why do want to know if Iam girl or not..Does it make any difference???
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| Aliciaa |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:47 AM
no it doesn't make any difference .The only reason that I am asking you is that I felt like you wrote that nice little piece in a girls point of view .I might be wrong.so just asking.Not for any other good reasons to ask.That was a nice piece of information.keep it up.
hehe
see ya
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| khimu |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 08:47 AM
sorry sweety you are from london huh!
i told aliciaa that you are from US.
sorry Aliciaa ji
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| swekcha |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 10:21 AM
Hey..
wasn't that in today's Ktm Post? did u write that?
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| Aliciaa |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 10:38 AM
Should I trust you khimuji in coming days.
hehe
see ya
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| DWI |
Posted
on 10-Apr-03 10:44 AM
As much as the Augusta National Golf Club has the right to offer membership only to men, these I/NGOs have the right to "encourage" girls to apply. As long as the participation from female is seemingly low, you cannot categorize it as a biased offering. Besides they are "encouraged" to not limited to.
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