It’s is easy to see and undeniable, in fact no tough algorithms are required to determine that a home or a society entailing empowered women is way much different with those that are not! Empowered women are embodiment of progressive change in the society. Such women acts as are a compliment to their men, they do not depend on men entirely for their wellbeing and those of their family. These women will promote social growth by ensuring that they children get best in life in regards to health, morals and education, which will in turn have a ripple effect on the society.
Yet besides all this vast advantages women bring to the society, it is miserable that women fighting for what is rightfully theirs is seen as revolting. I think this a common practice that we can relate to in our society- a women who has made it through the ranks is thought to as a social climber so use unorthodox ways to the top and not on pure merits, a women pursuing the so called ‘masculine’ career (mostly STEM based or leadership positions) are viewed as misfits, women are still view to belong in the kitchen and not the boardroom, women are seen as rebels and disrespectful when they challenge or the question the system- I believes in the wise saying, ‘teach a girl child, and you would have taught an entire generation.’ This only comes to prove that women empowerment should be something that every nation should mandate on. To completely bring down the status quo, both our girls and boys should be educated in school, and mentored to know that there are simply no boundaries to how far they can go in this life. Your gender should not be a limitation set on stone by society.
This year’s hashtag on Women Empowerment is #pressforchange. Women across the world, have come together to push and press for change. This can be done in various capacities that we engage in our society. Through this joint act, I believe we will finally break the glass ceiling. Yes, we will break the ceiling. I hypothesize that in the next 25-30 years, it will not matter whether you are a man or a woman. What do you think will be the implications of it? Something to ponder on.
Before I get deep into the discussion, let us first familiarize ourselves with the meaning of the word empowerment. Empowerment is equal opportunities for both gender socially, politically and economically. Women Empowerment itself now elaborates that Social Rights, Economics stability, judicial strength and all other rights should also be equal to women. There should be no discrimination between men and women.
Even today, women get micro credits for macro products. This is so sad and very unfair. We as women are wired to do triple shifts. And this involves sort of a super power – the real world’s wonder woman-We are capable perform exemplary well in our homes, be the best wife’s and best mother or parents to our children and yet be the best CEOs in the corporate world. Women are literally doing “double shifts”. From work place to another work place we call home every single day every day. Despite the exhaustion women must still take care of their children and husbands, this calls for respect and admiration for the women. They deserve to be treated as superhuman and given better opportunity and exposure so that they can even do more but with dignity.
There is a time a woman could not open a bank account and also was not allowed borrow money in the bank without the husband or letter from the husband permitting her to do so. This has changed because of the great work that both men and women have done to advocate for gender equality. Kudos to all that made this happen. We have come from far but not where we need to be. We need to upgrade our game to finally break the glass ceiling. We need to continuously embrace the “HeForShe” agenda. For it is by the hands of men and boys that action can be swiftly and easily taken against negative inequalities faced by women and girls. This is achievable by encouraging the male to be the agents of change, they do it for their mothers, sisters and daughters to have a better and a life with equal and open opportunities for them to be whatever they desire.
We should prepare and invest in ourselves so that we can finally achieve our desires. I do say, that there is no such thing as luck. We should embrace the culture of working hard and smart, and utilizing any resource that avails itself to be the stars that we want and advocating for. Let us not get the 50-50 share not because we are women but because we deserve it. Therefore we must work smart if we want to get more leadership roles in society. We should be ready.
I am normally impressed by how men operate. Even if they do not like each other, they still do business with each other. They act based on their common objectives which is empowerment. They are not controlled by their emotional feelings towards each other. Women should learn to develop each other. Remember an iron sharpens another iron. Women empowerment can only be possible and effective when we women lifts and support one another to greatness, without this mutual support the journey will only get tiresome. We should always have a broader and futurist view of life which can give us motivation for work and plan for the future.
I get sad when I see the same ‘Mama mboga’ is the same “mama mboga’ ten years after. We should be progressive and stop sticking to doing small businesses that will not make any progress in our life, but we should thrive to grow these business to larger and sustainable enterprises overtime. It is true that Women are the drivers of economy, and yet most are still stagnated. Why is it the case? Probably because we are stack on doing small business that are non-competitive.
Glass ceiling is the unseen, yet un-breachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements. For example, according to the 2015 Forbes reports indicates that just 10 women were among the 359 incoming CEOs at the world’s 2500 largest companies in 201%. This disparity is way too huge to ignore or assume, it’s an indication that women are yet being felt in the corporate world as they are supposed to.
I attended a conference that was celebrating Women’s International day, and one of the speaker asked us whether the glass is marble, or is it sticky? (Sticky floor is the barriers for career advancement. It is the discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale.)
An empowered woman is able to make better choices for the family, community and ultimately the country. We should learn to embrace life in totality. No matter how busy our lives are at work, no matter how much work takes away from us.
The gender pay is a key indicator of pay discrimination faced by working women. I believe it is common sense for us all to agree that equal remuneration for work of equal value is important and should be respected. Paying less wages to women performing a similar job which earns a male counterpart more money is nonsensical and should have been corrected like yesterday! Sadly, this discriminatory culture is yet to end even in 21st Century!
Barack Obama once quoted that it is not the smartest thing to do by empowering women but it is the right thing to empower women. In simple turns, the society should not consider women empowerment as a privilege but as a right and necessity to our dear women. Until then, the society is yet to feel the real power and potential of empowered women!
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Keep up Beline. Good job
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