Tuesday, 21 November 2017

Things that liberate women

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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