Empowering Women
G. Ravishankar
Gone were the days when women were
ill-treated. With the dawn of
modern women’s
era, women took up the challenges of uncertain circumstances. Three working executives braved to walk
through neck-deep water during floods in Mumbai. Women fight against unfair treatment by men.
Most people (men and women) wrongly equate women’s
liberation and feminism with equality between men and women in all walks of
life. I have different views about women’s liberation though.
I won’t go into the details of how women were harassed in the past and how most
are still subject to a man’s whims and fancies and blah blah. I’ll simply delve
into what I mean by women’s liberation.
Liberation means liberty from the shackles of another person. God made women and men differently, and it
follows that their roles in the society are also different! It would be foolish
to challenge these laws and try and compete with the men in all spheres. Why
question equality or inequality every single time? Why not acknowledge
the differences and strike for a harmonious balance?
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What I wish for is equal opportunities to express
oneself. Women should have the right to
speak their mind and be respected and accepted for
that. Their opinions should be counted and they shouldn’t be looked down upon.
They are human beings too and should get the complete right to lead their lives
the way they want to. They should have the right to make a choice in important
matters like
marriage, child-birth, family planning, career planning, decisions
regarding her child’s education, etc. when a woman comes home after a day’s
work, the husband should share the load of house hold work equally. She
shouldn’t be treated as a machine used to procreate and work. She should be handed
over the complete reins of the house and be allowed to run it the way she wants
to. She should be allowed to make mistakes. She should have sexual freedom..
now this is a controversial topic, but if a man can have it, so can a woman!
She should be allowed to enter temples during ‘those’ days. Marriage shouldn’t
be regarded as the ultimate goal of her life. Physical abuse should stop at all
costs and women should raise their heads against it. Dowry practices should be
stopped. Female foeticide should be banned. In a failed marriage, the woman is
not always to be blamed. Compromise should be done by both partners to make a
marriage/relationship work. And yes, Ekta Kapoor soaps should be banned
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Modern women acquire maximum talents to occupy the
highest position. So, women are
empowered and are ready to take up any challenges. However, they maintain their politeness and
respect other people to lead a happy life.
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