Gender sensitisation has to start from home: CJI Khehar
March 08, 2017 21:09
Gender sensitisation is not a matter of punishment and has to start from home, Chief Justice of India J S Khehar today said while questioning the mindset of presuming a girl child as "a life-long liability".
He also said gender sensitisation is a matter of "mindset" since the children see the behaviour of their parents at home as to who takes the decision and who controls the purse.
"Society must look into the matter of gender sensitisation. It is not a matter of punishment. Gender sensitisation has to start from home. It's just a matter of mindset," CJI Khehar said.
Speaking at a seminar on Gender Justice, organised by the gender sensitisation and internal complaints committee in New Delhi, the CJI also questioned as to why man is the master of the house.
"In this matter of sensitisation, man is the master of the house. Why? Because his wife cooks for him, cleans for him, washes his clothes, looks after children. Wife takes the responsibility of making the man and children comfortable. That makes the man master. This is the mindset.
"What do the children see? They see the parents behaviour. They see the roles and management inside the house. They see who takes the decision. Who controls the purse," he asked.
"A man goes out on his own free will but his wife with his permission. A man spends money as he choose to and his wife as he allows her," he said.
The CJI expressed concern over the tendency of celebrating the birth of a male child but not that of a girl and said this is what our children see.
"When a girl is presumed as a life long liability, how do you sensitise people," he said.
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