Girls to carve a niche for themselves

Snehil Jaiswal / TNN / Nov 17, 2005, 02:19 IST

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Gone are the days when women confined themselves to the kitchen and dedicated their whole lives to their families.

PATNA: The fair sex giving its male counterparts a fair competition in all fields? Fair enough? Gone are the days when women confined themselves to the kitchen and dedicated their whole lives to their families.
Young ladies from Patna are now becoming career conscious. MBA, civil services, engineering, journalism, MCA... name the field and you'll find Patna girls giving a tough fight to their male counterparts.
Ask them the reason why these girls leave the luxuries of their homes to sweat out on the career path and they unanimously answer: We want to have a say in society.
"I've never seen anyone seeking my mother's opinion, just because she is a housewife. I didn't want to share her fate," said Sonakshi, an engineering aspirant.

Even people running coaching institutes can feel the change. "As compared to a situation when only 30 per cent of our students used to be girls three years back, now almost 50 per cent of our batch comprises girl students," said Manish Bariar, centre director of IMS Learning Resources.
Even director of East and West Coaching Institute Vinay Kanth corroborated his claim, saying: "The proportion of girl students in our institute has been increasing over the years."

Girls who've grown up seeing their housewife mothers live only for the family are demanding a change. "I don't want to become like my mother. She starts her day asking us what we'd like to have for breakfast and ends her day asking our preference for dinner," said Ayushi, an MBA aspirant.
"Girls have started preparing for competitions right from class 9. They understand the need to be independent and on a par with their male counterparts," said Sr Jayashree, principal of Notre Dame Academy. The school is inviting Jayanti Ghosh for counselling its students in December.
Money also tops the girls' priority list. "Unless I am financially independent, I'll have to look up to others for my needs and desires," said Anushital, a Patna-based graduate from Delhi University.
But a substantial number of them are seeking an inner satisfaction. "There is no sense leading a useless life. Life for me will be meaningful only if I prove myself to society," said Ruchita, a graduate from Patna Women's College.
So, with an appreciable lot of the city's young women opting to carve a niche for themselves on the career front, don't be surprised to see your young relative waiting at home for his wife to come back from office and have the gaajar ka halwa which he fondly prepared for his executive wife.

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