Empowering women through education

"Venus and Mars" is not even close at-least not in India because this country still doesn't belong to the women. here women are still second class citizens subjected to violence, labor, forced marriages etc as if they are properties and not human and answer to all these question lies in EDUCATION as this is the key to liberalisation, key to have a rational thinking rather than succumbing to the emotional tantrum which the society keep throwing on the women in the forms of various inequalities which begins from the family in most of the cases.

Education is the only tool to ensure that women live their god's given potential. 

women will not get empowered till the time parents change. They ought to start treating their son and daughters on the same scale and groom them to be responsible, equal and walk with their head held high.

we as parents must educate our daughters to liberate, be independent, kind , generous, sharing. In india it will take a long long time to reach this goal as we are 1 billion plus population and adding every second to it , but sadly education is so behind times. so it is the duty of "haves" men and women of the society to  ensure that "have nots" women get their due and best way to do so is through education.

Sometime i wonder what are we doing to our women? i.e to our mothers, daughters, sisters , wife,girlfriends and colleagues.Can you imagine life without them? Education will bring following required changes in women:

one, it will liberalize their minds and they will stop thinking that they are without power. They will get empowered and will start GIVING BACK in DOUBLE the amount better for good and worst for bad.

Two, studying is most enriching experience and will bring richer and deeper understanding of the world and life and this will start showing in the way our society will start shaping up.

Three, they will be courageous to say NO to the outdated men centric practices at their cost , will not allow submission and dominating relationship. e.g - they will not have a joint account with their husband out of guilt but will believe that they can contribute a part or even full of their salary in their HOME as long as it out of love and can't be forced to do so.

Last but not the least- once educated they will stop teetering at the edge and will start contributing to our families,society, government - which is indeed the need of the hour. 

World Bank has finished a remarkable study and proved that removing the obstacles in women's participation will increase world's GDP at times we know that we need it the most.World will be more prosperous and happy place to be in and this MUST be on high priority strategy agenda for economic and political development.

one message which must echo from this article is that women right is human right and human right is women right.Though we still have a long way to go to get women where they need to be to have enough women leadership. unfortunately women are still world's majority poor, uneducated, unhealthy and exposed to various kind of inhuman violence. 

Mistreating women in various forms, trying to control them by telling them where to go , how to dress ,talk, walk, controlling their lives and bodies always remains a mystery to me.

We  also need that all the women who have made it to the top must speak out and share their insights and each women's insight must be seen as uniquely hers just the way male leaders' insights are.The more we expect women to be token representatives of the entire class of women , the more we will hold them back. 

Each one of us need to be women in this world, A WOMEN whose story we have applauded and drawn inspiration from.

will end with a urdu couplet - 

“Tu jo bejaan khilonon se bahel jaati haiy

Tapti saanson ki haraarat se pighul jaati haiy

Paaon jis raah mein rakhti hai phisul jaati haiy
Bunkey seemaab hur ek zurf mein dhul jaati haiy
Zindagi jihad main hay sabar kay qabu main nahin.

Jannat ek aur hay jo murd kay pahloo main naheen.

Uski azaad ravish pur bhi machalna hay tujhey

Zeest key aahni saanchey main dhulna hai tujhey
Uth meri jaan mere saath hi chalna hai tujhey."

These verses are from the Urdu poem “Aurat" (Woman) written by the famous Urdu poet from India, Kaifi Azmi. What is remarkable is that Kaifi wrote this poem in the 1940s before the independence of India. In that era when the Indian society was very traditional and very much a man's world, such thoughts were almost unheard of. But then Kaifi was always decades ahead of his time.