Jaipur: Shaken by the brutal gangrape incident in Delhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today made a strong pitch for starting women empowerment from home.
"Mothers should teach their boys how to respect women in their family and in the neighbourhood. Women empowerment should start from home," she was quoted as having said at the party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur.
She spent 30 minutes in the meeting of Congress group on women empowerment headed by MP Girija Vyas.
In her address, she described atrocities on women as a blot on conscience and a matter of shame, and stressed that gender issues should not just confined to Mahila Congress or women organisations only.
"The way we still treat widows, the prevalence of female foeticide even in economically prosperous regions, the trafficking of children and women, brazen sexual harassment - these are all very disturbing trends that should shake and awaken us," she said.
"Mothers should teach their boys how to respect women in their family and in the neighbourhood. Women empowerment should start from home," she was quoted as having said at the party's Chintan Shivir in Jaipur.
She spent 30 minutes in the meeting of Congress group on women empowerment headed by MP Girija Vyas.
In her address, she described atrocities on women as a blot on conscience and a matter of shame, and stressed that gender issues should not just confined to Mahila Congress or women organisations only.
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"The way we still treat widows, the prevalence of female foeticide even in economically prosperous regions, the trafficking of children and women, brazen sexual harassment - these are all very disturbing trends that should shake and awaken us," she said.
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