Karachi: Beating all odds and growing to come to be Pakistan’s first Hindu female deputy superintendent of police, Manisha Ropeta is pleased to have “tested wrong” her loved ones and is calling ahead to tackle new challenges: to be a “ladies protector” with the aid of using main a feminism force and inspire gender equality in a patriarchal society.
Ropeta, 26, who’s from Jacobabad in indoors Sindh province, believes ladies are the goal of many crimes and are the “maximum oppressed” populace in male-ruled Pakistan. Physical and sexual violence, honour killings and pressured marriages make Pakistan one of the worst nations for ladies. The ‘Global Gender Gap Index’ of the World Economic Forum, had ranked Pakistan 1/3 from the lowest more than one years ago. Pakistan turned into ranked 151 out of 153 nations.
Ropeta cleared the Sindh Public Service Commission exam remaining year. She ranked sixteenth on a advantage listing of 152 a hit candidates. She is present process education and may be published because the DSP withinside the crime-infested location of Lyari. “From childhood, I and my sisters have visible the equal antique device of patriarchy in which women are instructed in the event that they need to get knowledgeable and paintings it could best be as instructors or doctors,” she said.
Belonging to a middle-magnificence family, Ropeta says she desires to cease the perception that women from precise households ought to chorus from becoming a member of the police service. Ropeta feels her running as a senior police officer will empower ladies. “I need to steer a feminism force and inspire gender equality withinside the police force.”
Before Ropeta, Pushpa Kumari from Umerkot district had handed her exam and joined Sindh Police because the first Hindu assistant sub-inspector. PTI