The Centre for Gender and Legal Studies, set up by the All
India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) in Kozhikode distritct, Kerala, was inaugurated on Sunday by AIDWA national general secretary Sudha Sunder Raman. The centre is being set up in memory of late communist
leader Susheela Gopalan.
The idea of a man paying his wife for the household work
she does is an insult to womanhood, Sudha Sunder Raman said. “The
proposal devalues women,” she said, referring to a Bill proposed by the
Ministry of Women and Child Development that men give their homemaker
wives a salary. “Women should realise that these thoughts are influenced
by globalisation. Today’s legal system is controlled by the interests
of the ruling parties,” she added. She said ruling
parties were trying to make the life of common man miserable by joining
hands with capitalist forces. It was mainly women who suffered because
of the cap on LPG use, she said.
State secretary of
AIDWA and president of the Society for Gender and Legal Studies K.K.
Shailaja presided. AIDWA national vice-president T.N. Seema; State
treasurer P.K. Sainaba, Society secretary P. Satheedevi; and AIDWA
district secretary M.K. Nalini were present.
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