WOMEN IN THE NAVY (AND DEFENCE SERVICES) - Gender Equality is a Distant Dream

WOMEN IN THE NAVY (AND DEFENCE SERVICES)

Gender Equality is a Distant Dream

Musings of Retired Military Veteran

By

VIKRAM KARVE

Women Officers have been in the Indian Navy for 25 years now - enough time for “settling down”, “acclimatization”, “gender integration” etc.

It is high time women officers are given permanent commission and inducted in all branches of the Indian Navy and deployed on ships, submarines and all aircraft and made to undergo the same training and duties as their male counterparts.

All duties (at sea and ashore) should be “gender neutral” and there must be absolutely no difference in duties and service conditions between men and women officers.

Till that happens – inducting women in the Navy will be perceived to be an act of “tokenism” – trying to be “politically correct” – and as a “gender welfare” measure".

All modern Navies have women officers and sailors sailing on ships on sea and on air combat duties.

Last week I saw on TV – a program on a US Navy aircraft carrier – showing interviews with women officers/sailors on USS Carl Vinson.

Almost 30% of crew is women – there are more than 800 women officers/sailors on board the warship – and the aircraft carrier is deployed on operational duties.

There was a Lieutenant Woman Navy Fighter Pilot deployed on dangerous frontline combat missions carrying out air strikes against ISIS.

Another woman Commander who was commanding a Minesweeper, employed on hazardous minesweeping duties, was also interviewed.

Both women naval officers were married, had children, and were away from their families for over 2 years.

Many women sailors from various branches were also interviewed – and one could see that there was absolutely no difference between men and women as far as duties were concerned – yes – all jobs on board the ships were “gender neutral”.

The fact that all jobs (including frontline combat duties) were “gender neutral” indicated genuine “gender equality”.

Yes – after viewing the program on USS Carl Vinson – one was convinced that there was true “gender equality” in the US Navy.

Why don’t we have a similar situation the Indian Navy?

Unfortunately – in the Indian Navy – though women officers may be willing for seagoing combat duties on warships – will the “patriarchal” Admirals steeped in the “old mould” allow them to do so?

It is probably the same state of affairs in the other defence services too – women are willing to join all arms/services (including combat arms) – women are willing to undergo the same tough training and hardships as male officers – and women are mentally ready to perform hazardous frontline combat duties – but Generals with antiquated attitudes and old-fashioned mindsets will not allow women officers to demonstrate their full military potential by giving them the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

The Proof of the Pudding is the Eating.

Instead of imagining fictitious “worst case” scenarios and making all sorts of hypothetical assumptions – the Navy Top Brass should deploy women officers on sea duties on warships, submarines and seaborne aircraft – and see what happens.

Military Top Brass should do the same and deploy women officers on full-scale combat duties and Counterinsurgency/Internal Security Operations – and then see the actual performance of women officers on ground.

Why are Military Top Brass underestimating Indian Women and assuming that Indian Women are not fit for Combat Duties without giving them a chance to prove themselves – at sea, in air and on the battlefield.

Also – let’s see when Indian Armed Forces start inducting women as soldiers, sailors and airwomen.

If US Navy can have women sailors on ships – why can’t the Indian Navy?

Till both these things happen – as far as “gender equality” in the Navy (and defence services) is concerned – India will remain backward and way behind most modern developed nations.

Gender Equality in the Indian Navy (and Indian Armed Forces) is a distant dream.

SHERRY KARVE (09 April 2006 - 17 December 2014) : RIP

RIP Sherry Karve (09 April 2006 - 17 December 2014)

With profound grief in our hearts we regret to inform you of the sad demise of our beloved pet dog Sherry who passed away this morning and went to her heavenly abode.

To us, Sherry was much more than a pet – she was our daughter.

Sherry entered our lives as a baby in 2006 – she was our constant companion and showered us with love, joy and loyalty.

As far as I was concerned, my life can be divided into 3 parts:

1. Life before Sherry

2. Life with Sherry

3. And now – there will be Life without Sherry

Yes, for me – there was life before Sherry – life with Sherry – and now – there will be life without Sherry.

Thank You Sherry – for the immense love and happiness you gave us – for all those unforgettable moments of joy.

You have crossed the Rainbow Bridge – and I know you will wait for me – and when I come – you will welcome me with your trademark welcome bark and a vigorous wag of your tail.

We pray that may your soul rest in peace.


RIP Sherry Karve (09 April 2006 - 17 December 2014)

MARRIAGE IN UNIFORM aka MILITARY MARRIAGES

MARRIAGE IN UNIFORM aka MILITARY MARRIAGES

An Apocryphal Story

By

VIKRAM KARVE

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1. This story is a work of fiction. Characters, Events, Places, Settings and Incidents narrated in the story are a figment of my imagination. The characters do not exist and are purely imaginary. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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MARRIAGE IN UNIFORM – An Apocryphal Story By VIKRAM KARVE

“A” was a brilliant young lady naval officer.

“A” had a degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from a premier engineering college. 

She had passed out at the top of her class in first class with distinction and was offered excellent jobs with good career prospects in the best of IT Software and Engineering Companies during campus placement.

It was puzzling as to why she decided to join the navy despite the fact that she was aware that she would have limited career prospects in the navy, unlike in the civilian world where her career opportunities and scope for advancement were much brighter.

Firstly, despite being technically qualified, she would have to join the education branch (since technical branches are seagoing branches and women naval officers do not go to sea).

Secondly, she was being offered a short service commission of 5 years (as was the norm for women officers those days).

Being in the education branch she would spend most of her time on instructional duties teaching basic science and mathematics to trainee sailors and this surely would not add value to her technical experience and, once she left the navy after 5 years to search for a job, she would be at a professional disadvantage as compared to her “techie” counterparts who were gaining valuable relevant experience doing technical jobs in the industry.

We found “A” to be an outstanding officer and whatever her duties, she performed them cheerfully with efficiency, diligence, sincerity and competence.

Just a few days earlier, the moment she was 25 years of age (the navy marriageable age) “A” had got married to her college sweetheart who worked as an IT Professional in a leading software firm in Mumbai. 

Luckily, after serving at different places, “A” had been posted to Mumbai 6 months earlier and she looked forward to spending the next two years with her husband in Mumbai by which time her short service tenure in the navy would come to an end.

“A” was a lively person, full of life and always in good cheer, maybe because of the first flush of marriage. She was a delightful person who enlivened the atmosphere of the workplace.

One day we were quite surprised to find “A” in a sour mood.

We asked her what was the matter.

“I am going to be transferred out of Mumbai,” she complained bitterly.

“That is not possible,” we said, “You have just spend 6 months here and the normal tenure is 3 years.”

“I know, Sir,” she said, “but they want to move me out to accommodate my batchmate who has married a naval officer who is under transfer to Mumbai. They want to move her to Mumbai along with him so they can be together. So we have to exchange places – she comes here in my place and I have to go out of Mumbai to her place. I told them that I too am recently married but they said that my husband was a civilian working in a private company. They are favouring her because she married a naval officer and discriminating against me because I married a civilian.”

“Are you saying that you feel that they are victimizing you just because you did not marry a naval officer?” we asked her.

“Yes,” she said indignantly.

“Don’t worry,” we said, “we will do something.”

I rang up a friend in the education branch and told him to find out the true facts.

He rang back a few hours later saying that, indeed yes, there was an unwritten policy that a “naval couple” was to be accommodated in the same station as far as possible.

“This amounts to victimization?” I said.

“Victimization?” he sounded surprised.

“Yes. Favoritism and Victimization are two sides of the same coin - it is all relative. If you favour someone, then you end up victimizing someone else. While trying to favour one lady naval officer for marrying within the service, you cannot victimize another just because she did not marry a naval officer,” I said.

I also told him that we were going to take up this matter.

“Okay, okay, I will do something, but it is she who is responsible for her problem. Why did she marry a civilian? She should have married a fellow naval officer. Then we would have adjusted her in the same place,” he said.

I was flabbergasted by his argument.

Though not explicitly stated in black and white, it seemed that the system was encouraging women naval officers to marry a fellow male naval officer within the service.

Anyway, to cut the story short, her batch-mate who was married to a naval officer was “accommodated” in some other billet in Mumbai.

“A” remained with us in Mumbai till the end of her tenure and “A” was able to spend the first few years of her married life with her “civilian” husband, till her short service tenure was over and she quit the navy.

Later, after my retirement, I met many young girls who had joined the defence services and I realized that marriage was indeed a dilemma for a girl serving in the army, navy or air force.

If she married a fellow officer in uniform from within her own service it was fine.

The “service couple” would be looked after and, as per the unwritten policy, all efforts would be made to keep them together.

But if a lady defence officer married a civilian she would have to be prepared for a long distance marriage.

And if she did not marry while in service, by the time she completed her short service tenure of 7 or 10 years, she would be well past what is considered to be the “marriageable age” in India and it would be difficult for her to find a suitable groom.

Considering this predicament, that is probably why most girls who join the defence forces prefer to marry a fellow male officer within the same service.

Maybe, there is some merit in encouraging this trend by giving some tacit incentives, though there may be some concomitant disadvantages as well.

I have observed contrasting views regarding romance at work and marriage within the organisation. 

Someone told me that there were old-fashioned “boxwallah” companies which prohibited marriage between two employees.

(If you wanted to marry a fellow employee working in the same company, then one of you, either the man or the woman, had to resign). 

On the other hand there are some “modern” organizations which encourage marriages between employees and even facilitate in-house romances by giving incentives like dating allowance.

In the context of the defence services - the army, navy and air force - what do you think?

Is it a good idea to encourage “in-house” romance and promote “military marriages” between male and female officers within the same service?

or 

Should romantic fraternization and military marriages between “brother officers” and “sister officers” be discouraged in the defence services?

Dear Reader: What is your view ?

VIKRAM KARVE

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WOMEN IN THE ARMED FORCES — BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING (IN AMERICA, NOT IN INDIA)

WOMEN IN THE ARMED FORCES — BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING (IN AMERICA, NOT IN INDIA)


A Woman Naval Officer Vice Admiral Michelle Howard is being promoted to Full Admiral (4 Star Rank) in the US Navy 

A 1982 Naval Academy graduate, Howard has achieved many firsts in her career. 

She was the first black woman to command a ship — the amphibious dock landing ship Rushmore in 1999 — and went on to command Amphibious Squadron 7 and later Expeditionary Strike Group 2.

(Wonder what rank 1982 commissioned officers have reached in the Indian Navy - Rear Admiral?)

She said that with the repeal of the combat exclusion law, now there are opportunities for women to serve on all classes of combat ships, all types of aircraft, and even on submarines.

Will this ever happen in India?

If women navy officers aspire to be promoted to high rank, then, like it is in the US Navy, women must be prepared to serve at sea and in combat appointments and should be ready to undergo the same hardship as their male counterparts in uniform.

Otherwise, inducting women into the armed forces will be seen as mere tokenism.

In India, women military officers serve mostly in soft, safe and comfortable non-combat appointments ashore and in peace areas - women do not have to serve at sea, women are not posted to combat zones or in field areas, women cannot fly fighter aircraft.

Is it not high time to permit women to serve in combat appointments on par with their male counterparts in the Indian Defence Services too?

“Gender Privilege” will not help the cause of women in military uniform.

What is required is “Gender Equality” in letter and in spirit.

Click the link below and read the full story:

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20140630/NEWS/306300039/Howard-receive-history-making-4th-star-Tuesday


I would love to hear your views and read your comments please, especially from women in uniform.

DOG CARE Part 3 - LOOKING AFTER YOUR PET DOG IN OLD AGE AND ILLNESS

DOG CARE Part 3

LOOKING AFTER YOUR PET DOG IN HER OLD AGE AND ILLNESS

On 05 May 2014, more than one month ago, when my pet dog Sherry was in a critical condition, dangerously ill with a life-threatening illness, in the veterinary hospital, we had two choices:

1. Put her to sleep (Euthanasia)

2. Try our best to save her life and put in all our efforts to nurse her out of her severe illness

We chose the second option.

We decided to look after Sherry in her old age and give her our loving care in her illness, to the best of our ability

Sherry was diagnosed with diabetes and then developed pyometra.

The last one month has passed in a daze – twice a day visits to the veterinary clinic for Sherry’s treatment, her diet, her medicines, her twice a day injections of insulin, sitting with Sherry, feeding her, talking to her and comforting her.

All of us, my wife, my son, daughter-in-law, and daughter, even my old mother and mother-in-law, and, most importantly, the veterinary doctors, we are all contributing, trying our best to save Sherry.

My wife is putting in tremendous efforts caring for Sherry, getting up early in the morning to make food for Sherry, give her the insulin shot, and then in the evenings too, after returning from work.

I try to be with Sherry 24/7 and comfort her, take her for her walks – in her illness, Sherry always wants my company.

On 02 June 2014, the veterinary surgeon had planned to operate Sherry for pyometra, but she was in such poor shape that she was unfit for the operation.

Since the risk of the operation was great, and she had open pyometra, it was decided not to operate but let her be as it is.

Sherry is bravely pulling along, but it seems the diabetes is affecting her eyesight and her vision is getting impaired, and she is showing symptoms of blindness, especially at night.

For us, Sherry is not a dog – she is a member of our family – and we will try and do everything possible for her like we would do for our own children, for Sherry is just like a human daughter to us.

Let us see how things go along. 

Sherry is old now, and ill too, with diabetes and pyometra, and losing her vision.

We will look after Sherry to the best of our ability, give her good loving care, and hope for the best.

For more than 8 long years, Sherry has given us her unconditional love and devoted loyalty.

Now, it is time for us to give her the same love and loyalty in return.

For those who are thinking of adopting a dog, I would like to say one thing:

Before you adopt a dog, ask yourself whether you are fully prepared to look after the dog in its old age and take care of your dog in case it falls ill.

So, before you get your dog, keep in mind that you are responsible for the dog’s entire lifetime of 10-12 years and your dog will need your extra care when the dog gets old and is not so healthy, right until your dog’s death.

A dog’s illness can be a very emotionally draining experience and you may not be able to cope up with it.

Before you get a dog, you must be clear that you will have to look after your dog for its entire lifecycle and you must be mentally and emotionally prepared for the fact that your dog will die in your lifetime so that you will be able to cope up with the grief at the loss of your pet dog.

Do read my articles on Dog Care by clicking the url links given below:

DOG CARE Part 1 - THREE QUESTIONS YOU MUST ASK YOURSELF BEFORE YOU GET A COMPANION DOG

http://karvediat.blogspot.in/2014/06/dog-care-part-1-three-questions-you.html

DOG CARE Part 2 - ADOPTING A DOG

http://karvediat.blogspot.in/2014/06/dog-care-part-2-adopting-dog.html

If you want to adopt a dog, especially a rescued dog, by all means do so.

But please be very clear about the commitment and responsibilities of looking after your dog and the sacrifices in your career and lifestyle you will have to make for the sake of your dog.

VIKRAM KARVE

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WOMEN NEED TO PLAY VOTEBANK POLITICS

WOMEN NEED TO PLAY VOTE BANK POLITICS

Musings

By

VIKRAM KARVE

WHY VOTE BANKS ARE MALE CENTRIC IN INDIA

ELECTION DAY IN GIRINAGAR – An Apocryphal Story By Vikram Karve

This happened a few years ago when I lived at a place called Girinagar near Pune.

“I want the day off,” Sushila, our maid, asked my wife.

“Why?” my wife asked.

“We have to vote. Today is election day,” she said.

“That’s good,” I said.

I was quite surprised at Sushila’s eagerness to vote because Sushila was totally illiterate.

Yes, she lived just a few kilometres away from a modern city like Pune (often called the “Oxford of the East”) – yet, like so many others, she could not read or write.

But her keenness to vote indicated what a vibrant democracy we were.

“Who are you going to vote for?” I asked, in jest.

She told me a symbol – “I am going to vote for XXX symbol,” Sushila said.

“But why?” I asked.

“WE have decided,” she said.

“WE” meant her husband.

Apparently, her husband had gone for a “meeting” and it was decided that the entire neighbourhood will vote for XXX symbol.

“So you vote for XXX symbol every time,” I asked her.

“No, last time we all voted for YYY symbol,” she said.

“Why?” I asked.

“Because “WE” had decided,” she said.

Of course, she did not know anything about the ideology of the  political parties to which the symbols XXX and YYY belonged.

It was none of her business.

Before every election, it was the men who had a meeting and decided who to vote for and the women dutifully complied.

(Of course, the men had a “leader” who guided them in these matters)

Like Sushila’s husband, most of the men in that area were drunkards who lived off their wives’ earnings.

But all that did not matter.

In the patriarchal society that prevailed, the women dutifully obeyed their men, even if the men were good-for-nothing drunkards.

So, in Sushila’s family of 7 voters (she, her husband, her two sons and daughters-in-law, and unmarried daughter), all would be voting for the symbol XXX which had been “decided”.

Added up, it was quite a large number of votes in the locality, and since they all of them voted en-bloc for a certain “symbol” it was quite a sizeable “votebank”.

A few more such solid votebanks could ensure victory in the election, as the victory of the XXX candidate proved.

Around 3 in the afternoon we saw Sushila standing near our gate.

“Have you voted?” I asked her.

“No,” she said.

“Voting time will be over soon. Why didn’t you vote in the morning?” I said.

“They haven’t come to take us,” she said.

A friend of mine who had come over and was hearing the conversation said, “Don’t you know? Someone has to come and take them to the polling booth in a vehicle – and then give them some inducement, here it is mostly liquor – only after that will they vote.”

After some time I saw a van arrive to take all them for voting.

In the evening we saw Sushila’s husband and her sons lurching in a drunken manner on the road, as were most men.

It was obvious that liquor was flowing freely on election day (though strictly speaking it was a “dry day”)

At night, when Sushila came to work, we saw tears in her eyes.

She said that her husband and her sons were drunk – and her husband had thrashed her as he always did when he was drunk, and one of her sons had thrashed his wife too.

“See,” my wife said to Sushila, “you voted for the person who gave liquor to your husband and sons – you all women voted for those who are causing you harm.”

What an irony!

Why do women vote for someone who causes them more harm than good?

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A WOMEN’S VOTEBANK ?

Isn’t it a similar story everywhere?

We see media reports of male chauvinistic politicians who make derogatory remarks demeaning women from time to time.

Is it possible for them to get elected unless women vote for them?

After all, women comprise 50% of the electorate.

Though it is a secret ballot, obviously, most women do not vote independently and freely for that candidate or party who may best serve women’s interests.

In our patriarchal culture it is the men who decide who to vote for and women comply meekly.

That is why, at least in most of India, vote banks are male-centric.

And that is why many politicians have no qualms about denigrating the dignity of women by making tasteless comments, because they are confident that women will still vote for them.

EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN BY VOTEBANK POLITICS

In a democracy like India, the only way women can emancipate themselves is to organize themselves into a formidable women’s votebank.

A women’s votebank will have 50% of all voter strength.

The women’s votebank will be larger than all other votebanks put together and it will be the women’s votebank which will decide the results of the elections.

Women have to emancipate themselves, not depend on men to do so, especially when democracy has given them the opportunity to do so.

I wonder why women politicians are not taking the initiative to consolidate women’s votebanks to address and mitigate women’s issues?

For example, in the place I mentioned, alcoholism was a major issue which was affecting most womenfolk.

If all the women had got together and decided to vote en-bloc for that candidate who promised in his manifesto to shut the liquor shops and introduce prohibition of alcohol in the area, would it not have been better for the women?

A strong women’s votebank will ensure that political parties include women’s issues like safety, security, gender equality etc in their manifestos and try to implement them otherwise the women may throw them out in the next election, or better still have their own candidate.

I feel that the best solution to achieve betterment of women in a secular democracy like India is to have a strong women’s votebank cutting across caste, creed, linguistic and religious lines and including all women. 

Yes, women need to identify themselves as women first, and all other things like caste, creed, region, religion, language etc can come later.

We have all sorts of votebanks.

Isn’t it high time for a gender based women’s votebank which can be a game changer in Indian Politics?

In India, if women want to progress and get their due place in society, then women need to play votebank politics to counter male centric votebanks, which may be detrimental to the emancipation of women.

I will end with the question I asked earlier at the end of the story I narrated:

Why do women vote for someone who causes them more harm than good?

VIKRAM KARVE

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A creative person with a zest for life, Vikram Karve is a retired Naval Officer turned full time writer and blogger. Educated at IIT Delhi, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, The Lawrence School Lovedale and Bishops School Pune, Vikram has published two books: COCKTAIL a collection of fiction short stories about relationships (2011) and APPETITE FOR A STROLL a book of Foodie Adventures (2008) and is currently working on his novel and a book of vignettes and an anthology of short fiction. An avid blogger, he has written a number of fiction short stories and creative non-fiction articles on a variety of topics including food, travel, philosophy, academics, technology, management, health, pet parenting, teaching stories and self help in magazines and published a large number of professional  and academic research papers in journals and edited in-house journals and magazines for many years, before the advent of blogging. Vikram has taught at a University as a Professor for 15 years and now teaches as a visiting faculty and devotes most of his time to creative writing and blogging. Vikram Karve lives in Pune India with his family and muse - his pet dog Sherry with whom he takes long walks thinking creative thoughts.

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