The BU family would have noticed the Bloggers Unite button on our sidebar. Thousands of bloggers all over the world today – 15 May 2008 are highlighting human rights abuses. Many bloggers we are sure will expose the dark side of of China, and the long struggle of the Tibetan people, especially the women. After a dinner conversation last night, the matriarch of the BU household decided we should highlight the plight of many women in our own backyard.
Despite the great strides Barbados has made socially and economically post-independence, it is the unanimous view of the BU household that too many women continue to be at the crappy end of what our society has to offer.
- Many of our women have to prostitute themselves to acquire and maintain jobs. This practice is prevalent in the females at the lower end of the ladder.
- We live in a modern Barbados where proud women are asked to stand in the courtyard sun every week day to collect ‘child money’.
- We all know of women who suffer in silence the physical abuse inflicted by cowardly men. Surprisingly we know that this is an occurrence which spans the social gamut.
- We have our highly touted judiciary which has made no provision to to respond to cases filed which involves the family. Invariable the cases tried in ‘Family Court’ are heard by Magistrates and Judges who are clueless because they lack special training. Many of the family cases usually have a women at the centre who has suffered real abuse. Note worthy is the postponement of the Jippy Doyle case which has been stuck in our male controlled Court System for seven long years. In case you have forgotten, Jippy who is represented by the great Sir Richard is accused of having sex with a minor believed to have been 15 years old at the time.
We accept the argument that many women have climbed the ‘ladder’ but we still have a long way to go. Many men from the old school have been socialized to treat that member of the fairer sex with the sensitivity a procreator demands. Maybe it is one reason we abhor homosexuality, it just isn’t natural! Many women in their zeal to right the wrongs of the past have gone from woman to woMAN. In any struggle we will have trials and tribulations but we should remain fixated on the price. Equality for our women!
Let us treat our women right. We treat our women right and there will be peace and happiness on planet Earth.
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