What's next? Reservation for the Nobel and the Oscars

Planned reservation for Indian women by next Women's day:
-33% of seats in the UN Secretary Assembly
-2 Nobel prizes reserved in each category
-5 Oscars per category in each category

Okay, this is just a joke(which some of you might find it in bad taste but I honestly don't care about that.)

I have never liked the concept of reservation on the basis of gender, race, caste or creed, but most instances of reservation at least have some justification to it. Subjugation of the female gender or the so called 'lower' castes conspired to create societal imbalance and to rectify this, some incentives were required. This manifested in the form of reservations.

However, the latest move by the Ruling Party to pass a bill for the reservation of 33% of the seats in the Parliament is totally pointless. It is merely an extension of the populist politics that all parties resort to, to gain vote and hang on to power. The Opposition Party's flashy show of defiance to the Bill is just another example of this kind of cheap politics.

What I seriously don't understand is what the Government intends to achieve by introducing the reservation quota for women. This is hardly going to help the real women's cause, nor does it even symbolize the free and fearless Indian woman. All it manages to accomplish is push the society deeper into the mire called social imbalance. This kind of move only superficially marginalizes the male society and this in turn might have an unexpected backlash in the not so near future.

Why not create a reservation for men too - 33% seats reserved for men. Wouldn't that be a fair fight?

What have women(in India), who have been in power for so long done for womankind. Not much. Domestic violence and marginalization of women has hardly disappeared. By the time they take power, they have been corrupted enough that any thought of service to the society is stamped out of them. They are not so much different from their male counterparts. The end result is that hardly anything is done.

Also, something like governing the people shouldn't be done on the basis of reservation. How would you like to be operated upon by a doctor, who fared badly in his/her academic program but scraped through, thanks to the reservation system?

While governing does not deal with the human life as directly as medicine, it does concern the livelihood of thousands or even billions, depending on the scope of the post. Being thrust on to such a powerful post just because you're a man or a woman is in no way doing justice to the people who are being governed.

There are better ways to deal with such problems - for the emancipation and empowerment of the woman... and this includes a good education system(not the current one, which has you comitting everything in the book to rote memory and then 'vomitting' it in the final exam) and establishment of true women help groups(not the fancy feminist groups which grabs media attention for petty things but leaves the real problems out in the cold.)

It's what you do that should matter, not what you are by birth. I definitely wouldn't like to be turned away from what is rightfully mine by merit, just because a more poorly performing competitor is a woman.