Birth is a beginning…not an end, unlike how the Caste System in Nepal treats it.
The biggest killer of Nepalese girls and women is suicide. Part of the reason has to do with Nepalese society not valuing female lives anywhere near as much as those of males in general and other social issues arising from cultural practices and mentality. There are things we, the Nepalese men, can do to change things around.
Nepal is a country by men, for men. But it's time to recognize why that is so and to move forward.
Social structure propped up, supported and perpetuated by Nepal's very highly patriarchal caste system has given rise to a bureaucractic and political--and other--systems that's characterized by deplorable structural inequality, which many of those responsible aren't able to understand or, if they do, will not acknowledge.
But there is a solution!
What does privilege in Nepal look like? Here's an exercise to visually and dramatically show that.
Poverty is an injustice. One of the surest ways of fighting that injustice is by empowering our girls and women.
If only a human being were reducible to a stereotype...if only a human being could be completely defined by the mere social construct of social status...if only.