The Big Picture - Gender Equality Challenges

According to the first SDG Gender Index released this week no country in the world is on the track to achieve Gender Equality by the year 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals which 193 countries signed up in 2015 creates a global roadmap to eradicate poverty and protect the planet.

The Gender Index developed by Equal Measures 2030 which is a joint effort of regional and global organisations says that 2.8 billion girls and women live in countries that scored very poor or poor in the ranking.

India is tanked 95th among 129 countries with a score of 56.2 out of 100. Health , hunger and nutrition and energy are some of the parameters on which India has scores well but it's lowest scores are on partnership , industry , infrastructure and innovation .

So what are the challenges and roadmap in achieving the target of Gender Equality.

Guest - Yogita Bayana, Social Activist,
Barkha Trehan, Equal Right Activist,
Shankar Aggarwal , Former Secretary, Ministry Of Women & Child Development, Frm Secy, WCD Ministry,
Rekha Aggarwal, Women Rights activist,

Anchor - Vishal Dahiya

[Anand-egpx]

Activists like Barkha is there for supporting vulnerable men especially vulnerable due to their strong wives... Thanks for your voice mam 😢

[thejournalism]

i have some discord with barkha mam, on the issue that India is not male dominating society . As rural India is concerned their is huge gape between the liberty of man and women . I am living in village which is not soo backward as other village of India . what I see their women are exploited physically for field work and house work . They have no free time for entertainment . They are totally depend on male of their houses . They are mentally tortured by male of their house and by society directly and indirectly . Reality is that they no idea about their rights .As rural girls is concerned, they have no ambition about their personal life and their is lots of restrictions on their thoughts . They have no idea about that life is not confined to marriage .

[miseera]

Trehan Mam our advocate. It's good to see Equal rights activists.

[kislaymahaseth]

Bharkha Trehan ! A Woman who stand for Man.👍😂

[akshoysahu]

I am following rajyasabha tv, for a long time but never seen someone shouting like this

[adarshdipankar]

Yes Gender neutral laws are the need of the hour in India.

[vagabond]

Barkha trehan the women I need in my life

[rajadking]

Great Debate 👍🏻
Barkha Ma’am hats off 👍🏻

[khushiroy]

Barkha Trehan mam rocks 👌✌️, such an interesting debate it was. Thanks to RSTV. 🙏

[taracs]

Sir, can't you invite a rural woman, a tribal woman, a college girl, a kaam wali bai, a farmer woman, a factory woman in debate and same type of men in the debate for holistic debate on the issue.
Like if you agree.

[stranger]

Million of thanks to you Barkha Trehan from my deep heart! you raised genuine topics which men are facing all NGO work for men, nobody is there to listen men whatever he is facing you are Exactly Right.

[absolute]

*Barkha is right in many points clearly!*

[seemasingh]

I think Barkha ma'am lives in south Mumbai cos most of the time she was talking about the things which has nothing to do with the topic. Saying things like "India is a rape capital is a myth, women are already empowered" was terribly wrong and shows that she has zero knowledge of ground reality. I'm not misandrist but what she was talking totally mislead the discussion and presented a wrong picture of the country. India still has to go a long way to achieve gender equality and women empowerment.

[impremanshu]

Better connecting to the perspective of Barkha Trehan...u rocked 👍

[NaseeruDinJahangeer]

Most favorite debate so far, thank you RSTV for inviting people like Barker Tehran on the show.

[varunberi]

Full support to BARKHA mam... Equality should be there., , men are now more suffering under the fraud dowry cases

[smthgsmthg]

A lot of people suffer in this county on the lines of gender, caste, colour, region, religion, and what not. We need to address all these divides. Once thre is no divide, there will be no discrimination, and hence no need for empowerment.

[garimamahajan]

Barkha mam gave different perspective but i think thats not the real issue.. No doubt that boys do suffer a lot but women suffer more than them in real life.. It may be at working place, at homes, at streets or wherever they go.. So earlier for many years men were given preference for anything but now its time to empower women so that they come at equal level to men and then we'll definitely have a healthy debate about gender neutral law

[tarun_]

Barkha Trehan gave a very rational answer.

[NaseeruDinJahangeer]

Theory of Relativity proved cent per cent true to me today, don't know how the debate ended too quickly, although I have watched it for 26 minutes. Felt like just 26sec had passed, Tehran Mam_you were siplended. Gender equality encompasses both women and men, not the former only as we have been taught and debated so far.