'Women', one of the most frequently used term in the public discussions but hardly understood the way it should be understood. At the same time, 'women', performing a various roles in the private sphere of life as mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, beloved, and friends, are never a complete whole but dependent in the relationship with some other factors whether be it father's support or husband's benediction. It is, in most of time, a forgotten fact that women are female humans and should be treated as upto the minimum level of human dignity.
The first simple query related to the status of women revolves around the issue whether women are the subject or the object in relation to law and society. Absolutely, on the ground of being human, women are supposed to be the subject of law but the practice, to be precise, the male culture of law treats or prefers to treat women as objects.
The concept of reasonable man was created for justicing convenience and judges, attempting to unravel the mysteries of human conduct, intent and motive, have for years turned to the reasonable man for guidance. The phrase ‘reasonable women’ was never articulated then. Therefore, there should be the concept to reasonable women taken into consideration for justicing convenience and ‘remedying the wrong done to women.’
(Synopsis of the workshop held at Y-eelum, Chakupat on 30th April 2011)
So the basic idea of this article is that the term 'reasonable women' has different meaning than that imposed by the dominant male society which may not coincides with the definition of 'reasonable man'.
ReplyDeleteExactly a legal fictitious person 'reasonable man' standards are not applicable for women because women are different than men. Therefore, it is necessary that law should accept reasonable women standards as well.
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