For Gender Equality

First and foremost, it is necessary to formulate laws requiring all the political parties to reserve 30 per cent of the parliamentary seats for women members. Secondly, women should be made eligible to parental property right from the age boys are eligible and should have equal property rights at par with males before and after marriage.

The rights given to women by the new law recently passed by the Parliament should be removed, for it not only has limited their rights but also degraded them. Women cover half of the nation’s sky and without gender equality, a nation cannot move towards the path of progress. If a woman has to return the parental property after getting married, what good it is to give her the property at all? We like to see new bills that genuinely empower the women being passed in weeks, and not in years and years.

Geeta Upadhaya
Kathmandu