“Women is the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world” – Hilary Clinton.
One of the first things which come to our minds after listening to the title are the hyped virtual campaigns which claim to work for the empowerment of women at every level.
It’s not our fault. Infact majority of the people in today’s society are not able to see beyond these apparent campaigns which are filled with much publicity and glamour.
Accordingly we see female celebrities as ’empowered womens’.
Common on ! Who can ignore the efforts made by celebrities such as making a film on women empowerment, sweet speeches asking womens across the country to fight for empowerment lastly the most famous #meetoo movement. These things fill the hearts of common people with praise for celebrities.
But what the common eyes fail to see is that coincidently there is a movie on women empowerment whenever there is a issue related to women is going on in the country.
Do they work for free? , Offcourse not. They make money by selling burning issues like this. Similarly there were many celebrities with #meetoo movement, but all of them got to their luxurious homes after the release of their films.
There is a need of changing the perspective about ’empowered women’ in our country.
1. A single mother raising her child is an empowered women.
2. A women supporting her family is an empowered women.
3. A daily wager women earning for the livelihood of the family is an empowered women.
4. A girl doing studies against the will of her parent is an empowered women.
5. A women doing daily chores of the household is an empowered women.
According to the survey agency of United Nations, nearly 50% of the womens in India don’t have a bank account, same proportion of women don’t have a mobile phone in India.
Another survey claims that the impact of gender equality in 2025 in India is estimated to be US$700 billions. In other words, there gender equality can increase the GDP of our country by a massive 27%.
It’s saddening to know that a country where umpteen number of female goddess are worshipped, a love affair is suicidal for women. In the same country a girl can’t go to school for studies. Smoking makes a women slut. A women can’t laugh out loud. And in the same country 94% of the rape victims know the rapist. A rape case takes years for final judgement.
Therefore, there is great need of women empowerment in India at micro and meso level, in order to make India a country where woman can stand head to head with men.
i really appreciate your perceptive and i reckon our government should take severe action against rapist and those parents who never send there daught...