Jayprog

I do not condone violence against women at all for the obvious reason that I have said several times. Above all my mother is a woman

I have of late realized that many people and organizations are becoming crazy about gender issues and it seems where gender issues are discussed the main thrust will be women issues. If people continue at this unprecedented rate of trying to advance women issues, it is not surprising that we will end up with negative progression.

Negative progression results as a product of over emphasis perpetrated by selfish or otherwise good reasons without proper monitoring or boundaries. In third world countries the issue of gender has resulted in disintegration of an otherwise closely knit society as women misinterpret the concept of gender equality.

Zimbabwe is one country that has gone a long way in addressing gender equality but it is nearing a point where it might soon lose focus due to over emphasis.

While there is great need to address the imbalances of nature I feel gender equality should also focus on quality rather than quantity. Equality through quantity correction can lead to quality being compromised.

One serious blander that women and policy makers do in trying to address gender is to employ the so-called affirmative action factors. This type of thinking almost destroyed the Zimbabwean woman in the education system when girls where given special preference at universities ahead of boys even with lower pass marks. This resulted in employers looking at women as some substandard graduate materials produced by universities in order to address the balance sheet.

In political circles Zimbabwe almost suffered a serious blow when women advocated for reserved seats to be solely for women to contest. This method violates the simple principle of democracy. Democracy is so blind when it comes to gender. All humans are equal and should fight on level planes.

In any given population sample there are more women than men and I strongly feel there is no serious need to put quota systems to address gender balances. The most important aspect is equality in terms of social rights and privileges not as in numbers like what many women are advocating for.

The world is not equal and that is why there are more women than men. Nature has its own way of balancing its complex equations and no mortal body can assist this delicate process.