Recently a Delhi Highcourt has striked down a 90 year ruling which prohibits women to work in areas such as bartending. The court has done this to provide equal opportunity and to to eradicate watever gender bias still exists in the contries laws. This has been hailed as a move towards socio-economic progress.
Well, if we really wish to give equal opportunities to women, employe more women to higher positions in corporate world and let them take part in active politics.
The only people who hail this ruling as socio-economic progress are the hoteliers who want women bartenders to send their cash register ringing by exploiting their crowd pulling potential
Let's face it - our attitude towards women remain unchanged. Women continue to be seen as sex symbols and instigator of basel passions. In such an atmosphere, getting women to server drinks is sure receipe for trouble. If women are not safe working late at call centers, how can they be safe serving liquor to drunken men till the late hours of the night?
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