As if khaps of Haryana were not enough to guard the “conservative” image of the state and the skewed sex ratio did not underline the male dominance in society adequately, the Haryana Women and Child Department (WCD) has now passed a diktat to enforce “decent” office dressing for its staff.
This becomes all the more pronounced given the fact that everybody from the minister to the Financial Commissioner, the Principal Secretary and the Director, WCD, are all women.
The directive, issued by a superintendent for the then Director (she was transferred as the Deputy Commissioner, Karnal, in the reshuffle effected on May 4), Renu S Phulia, heading a department working for women development, was passed a fortnight back and circulated to the field staff last week.
