What's all that about feminism?
Let's talk about feminism tonight.
Which started as an effort to bring in quality between the gender went on to become a phenomenon which it was never intended to be created.
Ask anyone regarding this, perhaps everyone has a different opinion on this coupled with own experiences.
Feminism has been a wide raged topic since then, but what actually is feminism and why this started and more importantly is it necessary in our society?
let's find out.
To be precise, it's an effort to bring in gender equality where there is an effort to strike an equal balance between opinions, thoughts, etc be it financial, social or political.
When reading about different revolutions across the world, it was during the french revolution which lasted from 1715 to 1789 which gave birth to classic concepts like liberty, neoclassicism which means art forms like dancing, music, designing and painting and other stuff like printing, journals, constitutional governments, policies etc coined by philosophers, writers, scientists and when speaking about scientists sources like Wikipedia says Sir Issac Newton was the first to throw some light on these topics in his book Principia Mathematica which means principles of mathematics, see we're even able to learn such concepts from mathematics.
Feminism as a concept further got shaped up in the 1848 Rochester women's Right Convention where ms Abigail Bush was made the first-ever presider officer for the meeting in the US despite several negations. This committee went further and abolished the controversial women's right to vote and took necessary steps to support in creating an environment to support the working of Women.
This started spreading out to the world at large and forms to be imparted in an ecosystem we live in.
Since 1848 to today, the way as years passed there has been many waves of feminism which had only made this phenomenon even sharper.
When we look back at world history, Rochester Women's Right Convention was a path-breaking move in 1848, then it was during the 1960s to 70s campaigns were made against the social and cultural inequalities pertaining to women and then during 1990 era where the efforts were made to establish policies against the Workplace Sexual Harassment and focus was maintained to increase representation of women in positions of power.
Although this was prominent in western countries during those times for establishing a level playing field for both genders, when you compare to India it's still expected from a woman to make her rotis perfect round shaped. Indeed that's a reality in India which still ceased to exist.
But some remarkable women have made a consistent effort for such establishments in undivided India where personalities like Sarojini Naidu, Fatima Jinnah Phoolan Devi, and others started women-specific training program like Nursing and other domains to counter the male-dominated army women were given access to work in the army and even voting rights were incorporated in the constitution for women and an assurance for gender equality was also implemented. But the real change across te world came when Indra Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India in 1973, further change was experienced when Pakistan Prime Minister was Benazir Bhutto was elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, who is still considered as the best Prime Minister across the world as a Muslim for her active role in uplifting Pakistan 2 level up than it was before her regime.
The people of today's generation are living in the most exciting times where women work neck-to-neck in the same office, the government taking measures to reserve seats for women upto 33%, women fighting on borders alongside male counterparts.
But does that mean aren't there any problems for women and they can live peacefully in this exciting phase of human existence? No, perhaps times are still more challenging for a large no. of women out there who still dream of working, having independence, take decisions about future, domestic violence, rapes, no basic education for girls in rural areas and infact in urban cities too(this can be seen predominantly in lower caste people) and another serious problem is negligence of health which most of the opposite gender fail to understand at right time, and it seems to be transferred written in a will, that it's hereditary.
One of the topmost problems is again the gender pay gap which has a difference of close to 25% for the same amount of work, as published on Wikipedia on the basis of a recent 2019 report and above all crimes against women like honor killings, child marriages and others don't get reported at all but still campaigns have been launched by several NGOs who are doing their bit to make this society livable for them.
Imagine such a situation where women had to go through such gruesome situations the basis to which people take extreme stands.
And that has resulted to incorporate 2 extremes: Left Extreme and Right Extreme.
The left extremist is the woman who thinks that all the problems in life caused by men and that's how they develop a concept call man-hating meaning men are worst and actions should be taken against them, which is also known as misandry.
On the other hand, there are Right Extremist Women who are of opinion that women have whatever rights they want to live a sustainable life and there don't have to be any need for special efforts to strive for women's rights.
A very few percentages of women fall into these extreme brackets but a majority of women struggle somewhere in between those extremes.
But, do only women exist in this world? Do only women have problems in this world? The sad truth is the problems are primarily the same at the foundation level. Even men have problems too, but nobody talks about meninism. And this is a growing outrage across the world slowly because of the unfair practices by some extremist organizations to support their own feminist ideology.
Keeping aside the above situations for a while, society is so brutal to call out where men aren't even given a chance to express their emotions. The society has constructed the attitude of masculinity that describes male gender as violent, unemotional, aggressive and so forth, why is it that harshness defines men, which most of the men follow on to become one, there's no logic in it but people hop on in the societal definition and go on to become one.
Why not think of it this way where men are both sensitive and vulnerable at the same time? You're a father, a brother a husband, and a son too who have their own emotional needs. Like they say women should be given a right for choosing whether they become housewives or career-oriented professionals why not men should also get to choose what they have to do whether stay at home dads or something else. In most cases, space is lost where one can choose the type of life they want to live
Often this societal pressure of men's role is so high that consequences are even shocking, suicide rates are 5% higher than women, chances of diabetes get higher in men, stress, and depression is higher in men when compared to women counterparts.
Companies, organizations, corporations social organizations like UNICEF, WHO, WEF, strive for gender equality making it their main agenda and take necessary measures to create a perfect balance in their workforce, create campaigns to make people realize their social responsibility and rights, companies pour in billions of rupees to support such causes and many distinguished personalities defend human rights and indeed this has impacted countries in Africa where women are encouraged to work and this has made the country's GDP go up. Even in India, when we look at the seven sister hill states in north-east the dynamics are different, so much so that women are the head of the families, women take initiatives like men do normally, but there isn't discrimination and in fact northeast people are far away from knowing the developments which are happening in India itself yet no casualty is reported anytime striking a difference between genders.
While writing this I realized, the problems are equally balanced in both the genders and those are serious issues too no gender could be termed as a cause for enabling or disabling each other. Then what can be a solution for this, who's responsible for all this, and who we should support in the end?
I learned from marketing that, it's important to have a 3rd party view of your business to bring in necessary changes that could impact the growth and sales of the business.
When we have an outsider perspective or 3rd party view of this situation, it's neither a responsibility of one specific gender nor a problem pertaining to one specific gender too.
It's just the societal rules where we are growing, shaping ur thoughts, where a mother requires a son-in-law who would support her daughter but not the son who would support her daughter-in-law. Plus these societal rules have become a borderline that people follow blindly because we're not raised in such a way to question the purpose and existence of each thing. Had there been an opportunity to question such things and seek answers world would have been a better place to live in.
Men and women, however, cannot change their unique features that nature has provides but what we can indeed do is change our way of thinking. Then why these gender wars. End it and become each other's strong support system like that of Fevikwik which can strongly fix broken things which could never ever break and establish such values in future generations and bid farewell to those societal values which are just too old for us to govern in this modern 21st-century world. Indeed, be it education or an asset it needs to be revised or repaired similarly, societal values also need a revision too.
Which started as an effort to bring in quality between the gender went on to become a phenomenon which it was never intended to be created.
Ask anyone regarding this, perhaps everyone has a different opinion on this coupled with own experiences.
Feminism has been a wide raged topic since then, but what actually is feminism and why this started and more importantly is it necessary in our society?
let's find out.
To be precise, it's an effort to bring in gender equality where there is an effort to strike an equal balance between opinions, thoughts, etc be it financial, social or political.
When reading about different revolutions across the world, it was during the french revolution which lasted from 1715 to 1789 which gave birth to classic concepts like liberty, neoclassicism which means art forms like dancing, music, designing and painting and other stuff like printing, journals, constitutional governments, policies etc coined by philosophers, writers, scientists and when speaking about scientists sources like Wikipedia says Sir Issac Newton was the first to throw some light on these topics in his book Principia Mathematica which means principles of mathematics, see we're even able to learn such concepts from mathematics.
Feminism as a concept further got shaped up in the 1848 Rochester women's Right Convention where ms Abigail Bush was made the first-ever presider officer for the meeting in the US despite several negations. This committee went further and abolished the controversial women's right to vote and took necessary steps to support in creating an environment to support the working of Women.
This started spreading out to the world at large and forms to be imparted in an ecosystem we live in.
Since 1848 to today, the way as years passed there has been many waves of feminism which had only made this phenomenon even sharper.
When we look back at world history, Rochester Women's Right Convention was a path-breaking move in 1848, then it was during the 1960s to 70s campaigns were made against the social and cultural inequalities pertaining to women and then during 1990 era where the efforts were made to establish policies against the Workplace Sexual Harassment and focus was maintained to increase representation of women in positions of power.
Although this was prominent in western countries during those times for establishing a level playing field for both genders, when you compare to India it's still expected from a woman to make her rotis perfect round shaped. Indeed that's a reality in India which still ceased to exist.
But some remarkable women have made a consistent effort for such establishments in undivided India where personalities like Sarojini Naidu, Fatima Jinnah Phoolan Devi, and others started women-specific training program like Nursing and other domains to counter the male-dominated army women were given access to work in the army and even voting rights were incorporated in the constitution for women and an assurance for gender equality was also implemented. But the real change across te world came when Indra Gandhi became the Prime Minister of India in 1973, further change was experienced when Pakistan Prime Minister was Benazir Bhutto was elected as Prime Minister of Pakistan, who is still considered as the best Prime Minister across the world as a Muslim for her active role in uplifting Pakistan 2 level up than it was before her regime.
The people of today's generation are living in the most exciting times where women work neck-to-neck in the same office, the government taking measures to reserve seats for women upto 33%, women fighting on borders alongside male counterparts.
But does that mean aren't there any problems for women and they can live peacefully in this exciting phase of human existence? No, perhaps times are still more challenging for a large no. of women out there who still dream of working, having independence, take decisions about future, domestic violence, rapes, no basic education for girls in rural areas and infact in urban cities too(this can be seen predominantly in lower caste people) and another serious problem is negligence of health which most of the opposite gender fail to understand at right time, and it seems to be transferred written in a will, that it's hereditary.
One of the topmost problems is again the gender pay gap which has a difference of close to 25% for the same amount of work, as published on Wikipedia on the basis of a recent 2019 report and above all crimes against women like honor killings, child marriages and others don't get reported at all but still campaigns have been launched by several NGOs who are doing their bit to make this society livable for them.
Imagine such a situation where women had to go through such gruesome situations the basis to which people take extreme stands.
And that has resulted to incorporate 2 extremes: Left Extreme and Right Extreme.
The left extremist is the woman who thinks that all the problems in life caused by men and that's how they develop a concept call man-hating meaning men are worst and actions should be taken against them, which is also known as misandry.
On the other hand, there are Right Extremist Women who are of opinion that women have whatever rights they want to live a sustainable life and there don't have to be any need for special efforts to strive for women's rights.
A very few percentages of women fall into these extreme brackets but a majority of women struggle somewhere in between those extremes.
But, do only women exist in this world? Do only women have problems in this world? The sad truth is the problems are primarily the same at the foundation level. Even men have problems too, but nobody talks about meninism. And this is a growing outrage across the world slowly because of the unfair practices by some extremist organizations to support their own feminist ideology.
Keeping aside the above situations for a while, society is so brutal to call out where men aren't even given a chance to express their emotions. The society has constructed the attitude of masculinity that describes male gender as violent, unemotional, aggressive and so forth, why is it that harshness defines men, which most of the men follow on to become one, there's no logic in it but people hop on in the societal definition and go on to become one.
Why not think of it this way where men are both sensitive and vulnerable at the same time? You're a father, a brother a husband, and a son too who have their own emotional needs. Like they say women should be given a right for choosing whether they become housewives or career-oriented professionals why not men should also get to choose what they have to do whether stay at home dads or something else. In most cases, space is lost where one can choose the type of life they want to live
Often this societal pressure of men's role is so high that consequences are even shocking, suicide rates are 5% higher than women, chances of diabetes get higher in men, stress, and depression is higher in men when compared to women counterparts.
Companies, organizations, corporations social organizations like UNICEF, WHO, WEF, strive for gender equality making it their main agenda and take necessary measures to create a perfect balance in their workforce, create campaigns to make people realize their social responsibility and rights, companies pour in billions of rupees to support such causes and many distinguished personalities defend human rights and indeed this has impacted countries in Africa where women are encouraged to work and this has made the country's GDP go up. Even in India, when we look at the seven sister hill states in north-east the dynamics are different, so much so that women are the head of the families, women take initiatives like men do normally, but there isn't discrimination and in fact northeast people are far away from knowing the developments which are happening in India itself yet no casualty is reported anytime striking a difference between genders.
While writing this I realized, the problems are equally balanced in both the genders and those are serious issues too no gender could be termed as a cause for enabling or disabling each other. Then what can be a solution for this, who's responsible for all this, and who we should support in the end?
I learned from marketing that, it's important to have a 3rd party view of your business to bring in necessary changes that could impact the growth and sales of the business.
When we have an outsider perspective or 3rd party view of this situation, it's neither a responsibility of one specific gender nor a problem pertaining to one specific gender too.
It's just the societal rules where we are growing, shaping ur thoughts, where a mother requires a son-in-law who would support her daughter but not the son who would support her daughter-in-law. Plus these societal rules have become a borderline that people follow blindly because we're not raised in such a way to question the purpose and existence of each thing. Had there been an opportunity to question such things and seek answers world would have been a better place to live in.
Men and women, however, cannot change their unique features that nature has provides but what we can indeed do is change our way of thinking. Then why these gender wars. End it and become each other's strong support system like that of Fevikwik which can strongly fix broken things which could never ever break and establish such values in future generations and bid farewell to those societal values which are just too old for us to govern in this modern 21st-century world. Indeed, be it education or an asset it needs to be revised or repaired similarly, societal values also need a revision too.
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