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FLAIR MAGAZINE, Monday, April 4, l*soim provings womenour women areand there is total confidence. Names are not disclosed, only numbers and each case is known as case history No. 1,2 and so on. The cases which come to the Crisis Centre are considerable.FeedbacktThe Bureau of Women’s. Affairs (s making an impact outthere. The Bureau’s director,Miss Pot Sinclair soys a number of parish advisory committees on. women’s affairs have been set up from which the Bureau pets feedback. Quite a lot of our women are still enslaved by customs and social habits. There are basic attitudfnal problems to be solved. The rural areas especially (and one should not for one minute think that well-to-do, urbanised women may not think in this way), the idea is that a Woman who does not have a child by a certain ape is a mule and that life has passed her bv. It is a conditioning, albeit a misplaced one, all tied in to the Idea that a woman’s primary/absolute function is In the home, barefoot andpregnant.\ There Is a marked difference in how we bring up our children, boys as opposed to girls. Girls are taught dependence and to take care of and cater to. the wishes of men. By the time our girls become women, the trend is so entrenched that they feel they have to acccept their condition as they know rtO other or are so afraid of losing out, losing their mate's love or attention,Universal problemi . s ‘ •' dA woman is viewed as property. You are so and so's wife/woman and there are certain basic rules. Nevertheless, one should not underestimate the strength of our Jamaican women. We may not necessarily be the breadwinners but we, more often than not, regardless of class, bring up the children single-handedly whether we haVe a.mate or hot and we . usually stick out our sltvOtlon for many reasons — guilty fear of letting down our children or fear of losing our partner. The problem Is universal, no less so in a place like India where there are arranged marriages and where, from birth, women are conditioned, to the. idea that a man is supreme and your sole purpose is to be agobd Wife todomestic violence are on the increase. One need only go to the Crisis.Centre, operated by Woman Inc., to see the effects of violence, although there Is not one single incest report at the*Centre, because women are reluctant to come forward for-fear of hyrtlng family members.The chairman of Woman Inc., Mrs. Veenal Vaswani noted that her.organisation has framed professionals to deal with rdpe and domestic crisis at the .Crisis Centre. There is a misconception in some people’s minds that the executive members of Woman Inc. have a direct input in the operation al the Centre. This is not so. The executive’s involvement is financial and administrative«i^dent c^TOfrsocio-ecopornjc, background.is as o!d and classless is sexual and physical abuse ofwomen. No one is safe. It makes no difference whether you work at home, go Out to earn a living orI uggle at both.More womehfpy^usedare -andNew attitudes include sharing parental duties, previously considered the woman's bailiwick .A gift of a microwave oven to tour spouse may kitchen duties.
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