India is a patriarchal society wherein women are considered to be the responsibility of their father and brothers before marriage and then her husband and kids. For a woman, the most liberating moment is the possession of the ability to take the decisions.
- Education
- Career / Job
- Being ethical and professional
- Financial independence
- Inner feeling of strength
- Self confidence
- Dress
- Choice to retaining maiden name post marriage
- Driving
- Confidence of travelling alone
- Freedom
- Trust
- Opinion sought after
- Helping others
- Taking own decisions for everything
- Having to do chores by choice
- Use of gadgets & technology for efficiency & time saving
- Doing own work
- Inspiring and empowering other women
- Sense of her own identity
- Realization that her life is her own to control
- Ability to tell husband exactly how she feels about him
- Ability to make a choices of what to do in life
- Ability to express feelings without being judged
- Being respected for the opinions
- Being able to support parents even after marriage
- Choice to live separately from in-laws
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted
– there is practically nothing she can’t do ... Helen Lawrenson
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