Women have been part of several movements such as freedom struggle, anti-liquor agitations, etc. As we know there is a cost to a collective action and I feel this cost is far greater for women than that felt by the men. Breaking the social barriers, leaving their children behind for an agitation, managing both their home as well as sharing the responsibility of the collective action are certain examples of this extra cost on them. Sometimes more effort is required to be taken seriously in many male dominated bastions. So the collective action theories also have a gender specific angle to it
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@ Khokhar- how can you say like that women bear more cost than men?
we are living in such a society where male are having the responsibility to maintain their family needs economically and financially where as women are supposed to have the responsibility to maintain their family socially. Both these responsibilities are the the pillars of livelihood of a family for sustaining in society.
If anyone of these gets unbalanced then each member of the family has to bear the cost.
As the cost borne by men and women differs in nature when they become part of movements..We cannot measure who bears more cost ..
Can we say when one member of a family is part of collective action like freedom struggle the entire family bears the cost of participation ??
What i am trying to say here is that a man doesnt have to think twice before devoting himself partially or fully to a movement whereas women on most occasions in the existing social conditions lack such autonomy and so it takes greater effort on their part to be in a movement.
@ Anshuman '''we have studied in the GAD course that the person who earns has a far greater chance of taking decisions in a family and thats what I am trying to convey. For eg. if the bread winner( male in this case) of the family is a drunkard and the situation is the same for the area or the village where the men drink away the income.. Now if the women want to launch a movement against alcohol, how much support can they expect from anyone and will it not lead to further complcations in the family and this is where they have to go the extra mile to bring about a change,, either find a source of earning to run the family or to change the current scenario.
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