The woman who holds a dignified posture to carry on with her head high has to go through stressful and strangulating events of life. Many may borrow clichés to sustain the deafening assault of male chauvinism and if you ask the women you would get to know their harrowing tales.
Such women don’t shed tears over their miseries; rather they draw strength from them to build their lives with dignity, with grace or whatever they do to makes sense and move ahead. These women exist, they are real. They are not celebrity, they are ordinary women but with extraordinary resolve to cultivate a place of honour for themselves and their kids. They are focused, very calm and determined.
Many women are living in a state of pity and they are subjected to gruesome cruelty by means of violence and neglect. They are coerced to follow a dictum which to me is more than outragreous treatment to the modesty of a woman. These women are languishing in dark corners of the world and life to them is not less than hell.
Why they are in such situations? Who is responsible for this?
Some of the reasons, which are responsible for this, are:
- Abject poverty
- Male chauvinism
- Domestic violence
- Societal norms
- Indifferent attitude of the society
- Lack of empathy towards women
- Lack of strict laws
- Lack of education
- Lack of economic freedom to woman
All the facts certainly in one way or other facilitate conditions that subject women to intense miseries. In a conventional line of thought it is very easy for academicians to draw a simplistic conclusion of "things are getting better." This is the foundation of a fundamental flaw that is simplistic and the cause of many people to draw a false conclusion regarding this world wide, tragic situation.
The change in the plight of women is therefore conditional to the change in this view. Until such change takes place and they rescind to their fates of miseries. Life is too short for women to have to continue to suffer and wait over the academic optimism. They have to keep and maintain and create a much stronger initiative.
From the dynamics of change the most potent thought which can bring a great shift in any woman’s life is self empowerment. Those women who empower themselves have and can pull out and detach themselves from the hopeless conditions and created a niche in hostile environment. They will then survive and thrive and create a legacy for others to emulate. These women that develop an attitude to take on life with the full might of their courage so as to create this change will create a space in which to grow with hope and dignity.
A woman has immense strength. An empowered woman is a treat to watch as I have witnessed through a gift of being born and raised by an empowered woman; my mother. She believed in herself. So others believed in her. There are many others who too cause wonder in how gracefully they conquer each adversary; against all odds.
I salute them.