SHE

 

“Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world” is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day. It highlights how women can be equal partners in decision-making processes, especially those regarding policy making.

The #Pinkathon, #Sheroes #Womenfluencers #SaluteWomen #Balance for better #Each for Equal hashtags are some of the very few examples of the hundreds of International Women’s Day celebrations held in India. While the global perspectives and concern are about gender parity and disparity of remuneration being given for women who are health line workers, doctors and scientists, I narrow down the International Women’s Day as a day to remind our Patriarchs and Matriarchs about what it means to us.

The ‘SHE’ is a masterpiece. Branded as weaker counterparts and still having remnants of pieces subject to less opportunity, the SHE has proved to be strong ! It is a challenge for every woman to be her very self regardless of the generous service she caters to the relationships around her. The SHE roles have been pre-determined and fixed in our society!

A mother has some specifics, as a sister the woman has specific duties and the daughter has to follow and fall into the prescribed guidelines. It is startling to know that even as a friend the SHE has some responsibilities when compared to the opposite gender. The country is in the century of Women Empowerment being at its best. IAF’s women fighter pilots Mohana Jitarwal, Avani Chaturvedi and Bhawna Kanth received their ‘Nari Shakthi Puraskar’ yet, we still have our next door wives and sisters who are being packed and placed inside the life boxes without space for them to breathe!

SHE thinks hard to make a choice between the career she is passionate about and the one which would work for her and her family, SHE struggles to strike the right balance between friendships and family as the former needs approval of the latter! SHE is free to make her own decisions in love and relationships but it is an unsaid condition to give some thinking to what would actually work for her own people! It’s always THEM first and then its HER. I am not talking only about the deprived section of the female population, they do belong to all walks of life!  Some might be home makers, others, the noticeably educated ones, and few others are in their respectable career positions, but they are still confined to the boxes. What others get to see of them from the outside remains to be just a mirage of empowerment but not a real one!

 It’s time for the SHE to rise above all these shackles of life and nourish herself in the way she wants to live. A woman’s built-in character already serves to some important aspects, they are the best caretakers and mothers. The women are just born to do it right! Allow the SHE to be what she wants to be! She might want to be the most successful one in her career or she might want to JUST BE!