Americans also divided over women reservation

New Delhi, Mar 10 (UNI) Only Indians are not divided in their opinion about

the Women Reservation Bill, a bunch of students from University of Texas

made it felt that such issues also stir the bases in America while some

finds it “demeaning” and “disservice” to woman, others contradict.

A delegation of 30 MBA students from University of Texas in Austin is in

India on a study tour during a interaction with mediapersons expressed their

varied views on the women reservation.

When the students were asked how they look at the Women Reservation Bill,

the question brought out a ‘warfare of ideas’ among the students itself..

“For me it would be a tremendous success to actually have more

representation of women in the government. The reason behind this is that

the woman brings lot of different perspective which man may not be able to

bring on the table,” a Texas University student from Columbia Monica said.

Ms Monica was immediately confronted by a second year student at Texas

University, Catherine, asserted that women of her generation in always

believe that they do not deserve any special treatment just because they are

women.

“For me to stipulate a certain number of parliament members have to be women

is actually, in some ways, a disservice to women,” she said.

“I find it demeaning because I don need help. I can do it on my own

regardless of what my genetic make up is,” she added.

“Hilary Clinton, who ran for the presidency, is a realy interesting

demonstration of that because she belongs to that part of generation which

realy did not have a fare share,” Ms Catherine explained.

However, another student, Danialle, contradicted her and said, “I have to

respectfully regret what you have just said because you are a woman but you

are a western women and the history behind the role the Indian women played

over the year is very different.’’

“Though I feel it will help India in next 20-25 years but certainly I think

it’s a step in right direction,” she added.

Danialle also joined the corus which demanding more than one-third

reservation and said, ‘’It will not be enough.”

“There are so many young girls in this country who needs representation and

role model at a very high political level and this is where it get to start

and it is a great idea,’’ she said.