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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Are women really equal in the matrilineal society of Meghalaya? -Paramita Ghosh

Are women really equal in the matrilineal society of Meghalaya? -Paramita Ghosh

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published Published on Nov 23, 2015   modified Modified on Nov 23, 2015
-Hindustan Times

“Adam’s rib is a good place to begin the Story of Creation,” says Martha Mary as tea is poured into cups in a room at a presbytery over which a brief rain is falling. “But there are two versions,” says the elderly office-bearer of a women’s wing of the Presbyterian church in Shillong. “The first version says God made Man, and the Woman comes from his rib. In another version, because it is so, women are more refined…. Men and women have not been considered equal but the church does give women opportunities.”

The subtext: As a woman committed to the church, you might not get paid as a priest does, but serve Jesus and you will be happy.

The other women in the room - a theologian, who has put together a women’s association to press for equal gender rights; teachers, who hint at the church’s tradition of voluntary services or unpaid labour for women; a former office-bearer of a church organisation who says women have no role in policy-making - agree to this summing up. But only up to a point.

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Hindustan Times, 22 November, 2015, http://www.hindustantimes.com/art-and-culture/are-women-really-equal-in-the-matrilineal-society-of-meghalaya/story-FUp6A96LD8pvKW3hoadixI.html


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