Life has become absolutely challenging for Indian women of today. But what is more challenging over here for them is to face and deal with the parochial and the bigoted mentality of the men in the Indian society. Our society has been a patriarchal society or in a lay man’s language a male dominated society. So how can we expect a struggle and menace free life for the women in this kind of a social system? Especially the women who work in the night shifts in BPOs’ have to face many raised brows while they move out of their homes, and the cab already filled with men colleagues reaches to pick them up. Many of the working women have raised such complaints where their neighbors, particularly the males have unnecessarily created a fuss of the condition and tried to disgrace them in the neighborhood. Who has given the authority to such ridiculed males to suspect and point out any working woman? It is none of their business but yes! The old fashioned patriarchal Indian society truly gives the full liberty to all those men to behave and act in a way as they want to. Women who are working in the night shifts feel so unsafe and insecure, they are already too much scared of the male dominated system and just trying harder to somehow survive in an unsafe society where they might be molested, suspected, assaulted and raped at any moment or some day. Those parochial mindsets of men deliberately need to put a full stop to their menial thoughts and they must understand the point that all the women who are working in the night shifts are not prostitutes!
