Friday, May 3, 2019

Females of 21st century...

In the mid and late 20th century there was killing and burying of female infants and increase in rate of female foeticide in many parts of India as people should feel that it was a burden for the family, being the male dominant society people use to value the importance of female less and didn't knew that the infant which they buried or killed can give shade to the whole generation. As it is beautifully said that "They tried to bury us, but they did not know we were the seeds which will grow and give shade to whole generation." As time passed there was change in the mentality of people and except few most people were of the thought that if you educate a male you educate a male, but if you educate a female you educate a generation. Slowly and steadily the dawn of 21st century reduced the forcibly death or female foeticide and there was increase in rights of females equal to the males. The females in 21st century now aren't restricted to household or family duties but the 21st century have made females much more independent rather than being dependent on anyone. It is said that behind every successful man there is always a women but behind every successful women there are just hardships and difficult consequences she faced during her journey. In order to provide females with equality that is equal rights, equal treatment, equal opportunities and equality in every sense as compared to males. A movement called the feminism began.

The feminism movement was so successful that females were given equality in many fields but there were some feminist who took the movement to some different path and were so hypocrite that they started discouraging and commenting on their fellow females. It was rightly said that Feminism is  about giving women choice, feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with." There are still some orthodox and low mentality people in the 21st century to whom the character of female is decided by the length of her dress. But  its the choice of women what she want to wear and in what she feels comfortable, the size or length of her dress does not depict her character its just defines the low mentality and narrow mindset of a certain set of people. Due to people with such mentality females become victims and are discouraged, as said by the a famous american journalist that " Though we have the courage to raise our daughters more like our sons, we've rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters." 

Since women cannot control all the events happen to them but they can decide not be reduced by them and can rise fighting all odds. Laxmi-the acid attack survivor, Deepa karmakar- the Olympic gold medalist, the courageous lawyers, television anchors,athletes and many other women like these start revolutions by simply existing. All these women who succeeded in various fields by facing different difficulties are a perfect example for the quote " Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams." Females are no less than males in any sense may it be talent,skills or hard work  instead in the current era females are better than males in many aspects. A female poet have wonderfully depicted that how a female rise through all odds of the society as:
"You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still,like air, I'll rise.''
Thus females today in 21st century should get both gender equity and equality in order to increase the growth and development and to bring a change in the mentality of people who discouraged and devalued the worth of females.....




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