Today, i.e. on 8th March, every
year, is celebrated as International Women’s Day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day
In India, we celebrate National Women’s Day on
13th Feb to commemorate the birthday of Sarojini Naidu https://www.indiatoday.in/information/story/national-women-s-day-2021-remembering-sarojini-naidu-on-her-142nd-birth-anniversary-1768881-2021-02-13
Some people say every day is a women’s day… https://www.indiatvnews.com/lifestyle/books-culture-international-women-s-day-2021-theme-history-significance-all-you-need-to-know-689459
If we see Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, Lover’s
Day, Independence Day etc., ideally all these days are to be all the days in
the year. But we celebrate them on a particular day commemorating someone or to
focus on a particular theme… Some critics say they remember those on that
particular day & forget on the remaining days… That’s why even I wrote in
my blog also that let everyday be a safety Day, Environment Day etc.
Actually, if we see, all these people and
emotions are really important to us on a continuous basis on the time scale.
All these are a part of our life. Everything is important for us every day. https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/12/happy-world-prospective-perspective.html
We can perceive the celebrations on these
special days as the sources which reinforce or intensify the emotions,
inspiration in us to recharge our mind to focus on these. They are like the
reminders for enhancing the emotion towards them to create the new benchmarks
every year for achieving the continual improvement in the concern, efforts
made, emotions etc towards them… This is how all the special days are tied with
a theme to focus on…
This year the theme of the International
Women’s Day is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19
world”. In her statement for International Women's Day (8 March), UN Women
Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said: "We need women’s
representation that reflects all women and girls in all their diversity and
abilities, and across all cultural, social, economic and political situations.
This is the only way we will get real societal change that incorporates women
in decision-making as equals and benefits us all." https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/international-womens-day?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxrKS6eCg7wIV2w0rCh3PbQXvEAAYASAAEgJPyvD_BwE
Thus, #ChooseToChallenge.
It indicates that a “challenged world is an alert world, and from challenge
comes change”.
https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/life-style/international-womens-day-2021-date-history-and-importance-of-the-day-7210013/
Let us now introspect ourselves about Women in
India…
India is the country of Gods & Goddesses…
Each God & Goddess is associated with some emotion or important aspect in
life. Even they are connected to the nature and animals also https://researchsubbu.blogspot.com/2020/06/save-environment-biodiversity-from.html…
Thus, it forms the basis to understand how well
the Diversity is treated in India. Diversity is respected as the God in India.
Goddess Durga is worshipped as the form of Aadi
Parashakti (The Supreme & Prime Source of Power).
Other forms of Shakti are also worshipped as
the symbolic representations of important aspects of life-
Parvathi- Growth & Prosperity
Annapurna, Dhaanya Lakshmi- Food
Dhana Lakshmi- Wealth, Money
Saraswathi- Education
Even in real life also, if we closely observe,
Woman is the backbone of the family for the
growth & prosperity… Women are playing an important role in Monitoring
& Improving the Children Education… Working women have become a helping
hand for enhancing wealth…. Etc. The list goes on to infinity with their
multi-talents and multi-tasking abilities.
Women are special and unique with their
diversified qualities
Patience
Perseverance
Motherhood
Kindness
Emotional/Social/Spiritual Intelligence
Determination
Hard work
Love
Forgiveness
Beauty
Leadership
Creativity/Innovation
Adaptation to new cultures
Let us now discuss one best example to
understand the greatness. Just think, in India, there is a system of entering
the in laws house & staying there with the husband after marriage leaving
the parent’s house. After so many years of staying with the parents, suddenly
with the marriage, there is a paradigm shift. She has to get accustomed to the
new environment & culture. On one side, she must be feeling home sick, on
the other side she has to adapt to the new culture & new role… There are so
many emotional, social pressures in her mind. Still, she manages and gets
integrated into the new culture & role and becomes the key in the overall
growth of the family. It is almost similar to the people joining an
organization from the college. But for them formal induction/orientation
training is given. But in the previous case, the women could handle everything
without formal training. That is the inherent Emotional/Social skill of the
women… With all the other qualities of women, they are best suitable for the
leadership roles…
Thus, we should not talk only about ‘great
women’ as all women are great… Being a woman itself is great…
If we see the other side of the coin, being a
woman has become a curse for them… It is quite unfortunate that so many
atrocities, domestic violence, gender inequality /discrimination etc. have
forced us to debate on Women Empowerment & Leadership of Women even in
India, the country in which Goddess Maa Durga (being the source of power)
empowers all including men.
My perspective of looking at “Women
Empowerment” is “Women are empowering Men”… So the minds of men should be
empowered to think & respect the women, their freedom of thoughts, emotions
etc…
