Gender Equality

The day when we stop calling ourselves as oppressed, blaming the society, blaming the opposite gender and stand for ourselves, have the capability to take decisions for ourselves, stop depending and become self sufficient, stop seeking validation.... that day we can stop fighting for gender equality. Respect will come when we respect ourselves. First, We, the women should believe in our potential and stop feeding the mindset of our daughters/sisters to follow a certain pattern what a girl should do. We should never tell them what society will think if she can't cook or dress properly. A society needs both men and women in all fields to progress. The reason we see a very few women in tough working atmosphere is because we have conditioned our girls to choose jobs and work that are easy to handle. Why we always associate women with jobs like fashion designing, teaching, interior designing etc? Why not for manufacturing, entrepreneurship, defence? Why are we not preparing our girls for tough jobs? Are we not making ourselves look weak by choosing something which makes us look vulnerable. The role of a mother/father is not only nurturing values to a girl child only, it goes for both genders. Don't raise them talking about how a girl should behave and how a boy should behave. Empowering Women is not encouraging them to follow what age old traditions have been following till date and in the name of value, we are crushing their self confidence. We are still promoting women to be limited to culniray skills, cleaning, and nothing else. Values are important for both the genders and not only women. If men were taught to respect women in the name of values, we wouldn't have been fighting for gender equality now. Being a woman I want all the mothers, sisters, friends, colleagues to think on this as much you can. Let the change come from within, from us! 

When we have such deep rooted biasedness and streotypical mentality, We shoul stop talking about empowerment. Let's agree that we are a double faced society where in one hand we talk about women empowerment, gender equality but fail to apply the basic necessitiy/respect when it comes to the same gender in most of the cases. The mindset needs to be polished and We, the women first need to take the step instead of blaming the society or the opposite gender. Don't empower your daughters if you can't empower your daughter-in-laws.