Happy Women’s Day... Women EmPOWERment...

Today, i.e. on 8^th 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 13^th 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…