AN EXPIRY DATE FOR GENDER INEQUALITY
A Feminist Theological Query
Keywords:
Gender Equality, Gendering of Work, Religion, Sustainability, ViolenceAbstract
This paper addresses some of the concerns underlying the gender question, setting it against the backdrop of the development discourse, particularly the 2030 agenda set by United Nations in the form of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its target of achieving gender equality. While acknowledging that the basic drivers of unsustainability and gender inequality are deeply interlocked as pointed out by the SDGs, it problematizes the gender discourse and development agenda focusing on three areas that are fundamental to women’s lives like their gendered experiences in relation to work, violence and religion. Taking the Indian context, it analyzes the denigration of women’s labour, the persistence of violence against women in spite of the many legal provisions and the unaddressed issues underlying the gender politics of religion. On a liberative note of feminist theologizing, it recognizes the synergy between gender equality and sustainability of life.
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