Women Empowerment - Apples & Oranges!
Women empowerment, showcasing of women as ‘no lesser breed’ and ambassadors of #respectwomen are in limelight now. All this hullabaloo over trying to prove to the world that women are on par with their male counterparts forced me and my band of girls to get into an hour long debate. We were meeting after years; some of us were married, some chose to get out of it and the some were busy mastering the art of single parenting. We were all in what may seem like an ‘anti-male’ spot in our lives; but none of us hated men. We've all had our good and bad times with them. I still have a few male friends who vibe with me like my own spirit. In an attempt to showcase a woman’s caliber to grow and equate her output with that of a man’s (in scales relevant to him- ability to reproduce and bring up a child are not included in this equation!), we are only reconfirming our inferiority. The tales of a man qualifying as a pilot or he traveling to the moon are less dramatic than that of a wom...