Khushbu Sundar, Member, National Commission for Women, at a photograph exhibition forward of International Women’s Day in Chennai on Monday.
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National Commission for Women member Khushbu Sundar on Monday mentioned the tendency to query and blame women who face sexual harassment, should cease.
Addressing the inauguration of a three-day convention on ‘Women empowerment and gender equality’ forward of the International Women’s Day, the actor-politician mentioned questions reminiscent of why the affected girl was out so lengthy at evening or why she was carrying explicit kind of garments should cease.
Instead, she mentioned males should be educated on treating women with respect and never as mere objects of need. Blaming the patriarchal system for males’s attitute in the direction of women, she pressured the necessity for starting the adjustments at dwelling.
Her feedback got here within the backdrop of her latest revelation throughout an interview with the net media platform Mojo Story about how she was sexually abused as a toddler by her father and her brave revolt in opposition to him when she was 15.
She inaugurated a photograph exhibition, highlighting the achievements and struggles of pioneering women, particularly these who took half within the freedom battle. She mentioned no matter progress women had achieved at current had been as a result of of the sacrifices made by such pioneers.
She mentioned the federal government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a number of initiatives in the direction of women’s progress. The occasion was organised by Central Bureau of Communication and Press Information Bureau in affiliation with University of Madras and DOT School of Design.
