“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” — Melinda Gates
The world is cracking up with crises engineered by cracks and crooks strutting as politicians and world leaders.
At the receiving end are women and children. They suffer more as victims of poverty, climate change, religious fundamentalism, communal violence and wars.
It is estimated that by 2030 about 342 million women and girls globally could be living in poverty.
Women are more illiterate than men as they are considered second rate citizens.
Only 25% of women are seen in managerial positions and less than that holding parliamentary seats, though women can be better administrators.
Rural women are the major workforce in the farm sector. 80% of India’s food is produced by women.
Unhealthy practices of genital mutilation across Africa and the Middle East, adolescent and child marriages in Asian countries, gender discrimination, superstition and bias against the female world have contributed to keeping women without progress and development.
The positive sign is that, as they are getting educated , they are becoming aware of of their legal, human, and fundamental rights. They have begun to raise their voice and claim their rightful place in the world and in history. They have a long way to go to demolish the male world of patriarchal fundamentalism.
They have begun to assert and question the so-called male prerogatives. They have happily begun to realise that they have nothing to lose except their withering garland of unfreedom.
“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie(Nigerian writer and novelist)