Women empowerment.
The definition of women empowerment is "Empowerment is the process that creates power in individuals over their own lives, society, and in their communities.". This does not happen across the world. In underdeveloped and developing countries where receiving education, food and water itself are major issues women across the globe are not empowered. If this is the case, we empower women through movements but again if we ever ask a woman from an under privileged society, she wouldn’t think of being empowered should she wouldn’t fight for her rights, freedom and empowerment.
This is not to justify the fact that women are not empowered globally. This is to explain why women are not evenly empowered across the globe. If I, from a family that is a little privileged than the underprivileged family, look at empowerment it gives me a sense of relief from my grieves of having to fight hard to be heard because if I do not get to a place where my opinions are valued there would be no point in wanting to be heard or opinionated. But if I come from a not so well off family all I would ever think about is earn well enough to feed my family, to live in a 2bhk house and not having to stitch my torn out clothes.
Both are empowerment. Going to a higher place than where we are today is a great achievement. There are about 46 least developed nations and 25 developing nations and understanding the concept of women empowerment should be one of the greatest challenges existing till date.
When daughters are told to "shush", "Go in! ", "learn to cook and clean else who’d marry you? ", "don’t let loose of your daughter or else your family honor would board the ship and go away from you" it is really hard to educate and make people understand how important this concept is.
There are countries with weird beauty standards. For example,
Lip Plates, Ethiopia:
In the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia, women wear lip plates to appear more beautiful and to attract men for marriage. The process starts when a girl attains puberty. Plates of increasing size are inserted on the lower lip to stretch it until she can insert a full-size lip plate. The women decorate the plates to showcase their skills and personality.
This is the situation. Beauty and getting married are set to be a woman’s life purpose. Choosing to get married or be a boss or do both should be the choice of a woman. How are we supposed to educate people and society about one’s liking and disliking when a majority of the women’s voices are not even heard? If we heard them enough, why did we need Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy ? We needed him because we did not hear what women in our nation had to say. Let’s go back to 1823 when Thomas Wentworth Higginson was born. Higginson was one of the leading male advocates of woman’s rights during the decade before the Civil War. In 1853, he addressed the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention in support of a petition asking that women be allowed to vote on ratification of the new constitution. Published as "Woman and Her Wishes,"the address was used many years as a woman’s rights tract (an extract from Wikipedia). Why did we need all these great men fighting for the rights of a woman? Because we were undervalued and we still are. This is the dejected part of all. We still are. Until everyone of us be it anyone understand that uplifting women, giving them their space, appreciate them for what they do and give them the respect they deserve we would fail being to be a human. Uplifting a woman brings in more income so the family would lead a better life, would uplift the society and the nation and eventually, this entire globe would be a better place. Sorrows and hunger would be gone, because the more we earn the more we can donate, all of our dreams would come true, we (women) might have a better perspective of a situation than others which would in return bring in fortune. Let’s grow together, as a society, as a nation and as Earthians.
