Braiding and stroking each other’s hair, coddling with toddlers, combating the kitchen, compromising the career, bearing the brunt of mental agony is the enigmatic species “Women”. They are sphinx-like to man, not on the basis of shuffling batons with breach of faith. But the spectrum of task they handle with impeccable perfection. Unfair, the entire exercise is taken for granted.

The man works in the office is equally compensated. The woman does her part at home, that’s her duty. No reciprocation. The man plays a five-minute role and his job of bearing and rearing is over. The man’s chromosomes determine the gender of a child. But the birth of a girl child…the woman is indiscriminately subject to discrimination. Thoroughly undermining the mental and physical agony she undergoes, she is instantly criticized.

She has been categorically stated as “Weaker Sex”. The connotation has its resolute ground. During her menstrual period she becomes physically fatigued and mentally feeble. When she is carrying, she has additional responsible to care of herself. The man plays a significantly dominant role in the sexual exercise. Evidently these three factors are sturdily loaded against her. All coincidently are attributed to her sex. This prejudice is obliterated from the mind; man can contemplate on women’s competency. Leave aside the factor of inequality; both can demonstrate same capability in any given field. Right from physical strength to intellectual exposition, they have in fact left their indelible mark. At the top of the sports competition like Olympic where the women squadrons have displayed their physical strength to the painstakingly performing the entire physical work at home… The mental toughness for single-handedly flying the aircraft to becoming an astronaut to climbing the Everest… they have evidently left indelible mark.   They have demonstrated their dynamism by heading the country to the corporate… successful even doing better than their male counterpart. Not to mention about entertainment they are at the forefront.

Definitely with intrinsic disadvantage tilted against them they suffer at the quantity front but not at the quality front. Moreover, their disposition has been par excellence in few opportunities they have availed… In politics, the role of Mrs. Indira Gandhi has been of high quality. In case of police, the role of Mrs. Kiran Bedi is indubitable. In case of charity, the role of Mother Teresa is inimitable. In entertainment, the role of Madhuri Dixit has been comparable with the megastar Amitabh Bachchan. In singing, unrivaled is the quality of performance of Lata Mangeskar. In the field of entrepreneurship, the role of Kiran Majumdar of Biocon is immensely laudable. If in 1996 Olympic Leander Peas made us proud, 2000 it was Karnam Malleshewari who equally lifted our spirit.

In the aforementioned backdrop, it is highly unjustified to corner the women and question her credibility and worth. Given an equal platform and fair chance, she can demonstrate her performance in diverse field. With their additional potent in their armory like love, persuasion, and tolerance they can send ripples to the purported comfortable bastion of man.

It’s a premeditated creation of that skewed perception against the women parish to secure and guard their citadel. Subjugation would continue, as man would never like relinquishing their perceived edge over their counterpart. In effect the onus of unshackling of the stronghold resides with women. Wake up and wade through the artificial barrier that is constraining your social stance and economic independence. Don’t be enigmatic become energetic to pulverize the perceived image.

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