Women and the India Army have been like chalk and cheese (with the medical corps being the only entry point) until things changed a decade ago. Finally, the ‘other sex’ began to be accepted in the male-dominated watertight fauji compartments.Â
So now, one could see the feminine matching shoulders with their male counterparts in the non-combat arms like engineering, signals, ordnance, education and air traffic control. But it’s not exactly as it seems. So reflect the 5 suicides by lady officers in the last 2 and half years.
Brothers in the army, discourage the sisters from joining the forces because at the end of the day ‘you pay the price of being a woman’ exclaims an anguished army man. Apparently, a colleague of the late Capt Megha Razdan (who strangulated herself on 1 July due to pressures of army life), he goes on to say, ‘She paid the price of being fairly good looking. Women in the army do nothing but PLEASE the senior officers’.
With that scathing remark, I wonder what will happen to the young girls who have always dreamt of serving the nation? Is it fair to them?