The Uttar Pradesh State Women Commission has proposed that men should not tailor clothes for women or cut their hair, aiming to protect women from “bad touch” and prevent the ill intentions of men.
The bold set of suggestions, including banning men from taking women’s measurements and installing CCTV cameras, followed a meeting on October 28.
“On October 28, at the meeting of the women commission, a proposal was floated that only female tailors should take the measurement of stitched clothes worn by women and that CCTVs should be installed in these areas,” Himani Agarwal, a member of the women’s body, told PTI on Friday.
She said the proposal was floated by state women’s commission chairperson Babita Chauhan and received support from the members present at the meeting.
“We have also said that in salons, it should only be female barbers who should attend to female customers,” Agarwal said.
Agarwal added “We are of the view that because of men involved in this type of profession, women are molested. They (men) try to indulge in bad touch.
“The intention of some of the men is also not good,” she said, before adding, “not that all the men have bad intentions.”
Agarwal said this is just a proposal as of now and the women’s commission will subsequently request the state government to make laws in this regard.