“A woman is a full circle, within her is the power to create, nurture, and to transform”
Greetings of the day, today I Paarth Wassan, a poet, writer, and mainstream feminist IShere to put my thoughts on women’s empowerment. Calling a nation independent does not make it independent, there should be equal rights for men and women. There is a proliferating realization and recognition that empowering women is the urgent need of the hour. In most of the countries including India, social reformers have been doing a lot to empower women, but still, we have miles to go. The empowerment of women is of prime importance in every society. What is the need of empowering women? To answer this, I would like to quote the golden words of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru that are, ” to awaken the people it is the women who must be awakened. Once she is on move, the family moves, the village moves, and the nation move.” So women must be empowered. The 22 century poses many new challenges that require a new way of thinking none more important than the economic role of women in a rapidly changing world. But women today remain blocked from their true potential. In my opinion, learning, labor, and leadership are the 3 else which should be considered to bring women to society with all the rights. Education is the foundation upon which any change is built. Learning helps women to help themselves to break the shackles of exclusion. There is a very famous quote, ” if you educate a boy, you educate a man but if you educate a girl you train a village.” The second step is labor which helps the women to flourish and achieve their true potential. Patriarchy has become a threat to our society. This is a matter of concern not only for women but also for men. Due to patriarchy, men pay more attention to dominance and at the same time, women start suppressing. In such a situation, both sections suffer a great loss because such thinking creates a hindrance in the development of society. Due to this belief, women were restricted from getting an education in earlier times. But as society paid attention to this concern, people started encouraging women’s empowerment. In 1848, an Indian teacher, Savitri Bai Phule, for the first time raised her voice against the practice of restricting women from getting an education. Savitri Bai Phule played a very important role in the fight for women’s rights during British rule. The impact of her influential revolt was so deep that after 100 years, India also provided opportunities to women in politics. Not only women but men like Raja Ram Mohan Roy and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar also played the role of a feminist at that time. Feminism is not something that asks to support only women, it is an ideology that believes that women and men should have equal rights and opportunities. Today, we know several great female political leaders like Indira Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu who played their roles fantastically. At last, I would like to say that now it is the time to create a society where all women can live comfortably with all equal rights and privileges.
