Women’s Empowerment : Aditi Chattopadhyay

Women’s Empowerment

Aditi Chattopadhyay

Life is long journey, every step is very important in this long journey. We are living in a society. In our daily life we are focused in our own life, then we deal with many types of people surrounding our life. In this era of globalization we see people too much busy in their work. From our childhood time to a youth we go on fighting for every essential thing in our everyday step. If we specially notice, we see girl’s life is fraught with too many difficulties. In today’s world, 4–5 year old girls are too much mature and advanced. They look serious in their attitude.

They go their school, tuition, musical school and playground and lots of other places. They go to meet their friends or to play in the park. In the fast going life their parents are too much busy. But the girls take care in focusing on their study and career development. This time we are alert to create situations to teach the children good values of life and dignity of labour in place of wasting their time in game apps or in the mall and food restaurants seeking junk food. Girls are found to have PCOS syndrome for taking too much junk food and lazy life style.

Boys carefully tackle many tough situation, but girls are getting much serious nowadays to handle problems of life. A girl whenever her age is 11 to 12 they look more responsible than their male counterpart, because this time a girl knows that she will one day be a mother. So definitely they become too much conscious & serious of the challenges.

Now in this AI dominated age and the age of Chandrayaan III, people are moving fast, but still it is seen that the thought level of many people is too low and not at all progressive. Even today in our society some people stick to old age dogmatic thinking that women are only born for child birth and baby nourishing. Women are a sexual chattel and a cook. But a woman after getting good education can be a good home maker.

In the rural areas villagers regard we saw the girls a burden. They keep the girls so much busy with their domestic house chores that they cannot concentrate on their education and career development. The old mindset is despicable. Girl children are born for being good cook and a good maid servant of a man’s home. Day by day the world is growing advanced, the economy, the industry and technology all are changing. But the backward people who believe in superstition hinder the progress of women and girl children.

Education is more powerful, education can be the game changer for the whole messy situation. In our society, we can safely conclude one thing. If light of education is spread, every door will be exposed to radiance of enlightenment.

A farmer’s son will not become a farmer, a doctor’s son will not become a doctor. Nelson Mandela says, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” If we look at our great men, we will see that all great men of India’s Renaissance, Raja Rammohan to Vidyasagar, fought for women’s education. In a patriarchal society, the expansion of female education was not encouraged even a few decades ago.

Ashapurna Devi has shown us how the marginalised women fight for education. Ashapurna Devi’s brother’s used to sit and read. At that time, she would sit on the opposite side and identify herself with the letters by looking at them. In our society, child marriage is curse. A girl is married off before she can understand anything. A girl who enters the world of marriage becomes a mother before she can understand anything.

Nowadays, with birth control, it is also a kind of survival. In the old days, many people lost their lives prematurely while giving birth because there was no way to control birth. All over India a girl’s marriage without dowry is really a big big problem. In dowry cases we see gruesome events happening, and for dowry a woman is killed by her husband and his family. Sometimes young girls are also victims of this crime.

Another serious disease of our society is rape. The body of a woman who is raped becomes impure, but the people who raped her not blamed as impure. Nothing can be more ridiculous than this idea. Day by day people are getting more and more educated. We are hopeful that the people will be able to shed their taboos. We are hopeful that the mind of every educated person will shine like the rays of the sun. Time will be changed. So we are hopeful.

We believe that expansion of literacy and inculcation of moral values will change the superstition, taboos and false ideas. Women’s are flourishing in every sector, even in science and technology. Women now fly planes, even Rafael, and women come out as President of India. Women are pilots and doctors. Women are leading the Bollywood and in India women are good parliamentarians. Women no longer lag behind men.

(Aditi Chatterjee is a regular columnist in newspapers published from Tripura and Bengal. She writes on female issues and emerges as an inspirational influencer.)