Role of women in today’s age has changed immensely as compared to old time. Women were not given the respectable position, were not allowed to raise their voice for injustice happening to them and were not allowed getting education. But nowadays, they are getting educated, doing decent job and have started matching shoulders with men.
In today’s world women are much stronger in emotion and intellect and are very good in multitasking. They simultaneously manage house and professional work responsibility very well. Now she is not the one who is bound to be in kitchen and look after the house. Now she stands equally to men attaining the same position as that of men.
Nowadays, there is hardly any field left in which women are not leading. Let’s take the areas such as politics, science and technology, education, business, sports, acting whatever the field is. Let’s take the example of Ms. Indra Nooyi (head of Pepsico, USA), Chanda Kochhar (MD and CEO of ICICI Bank), Mallika Sarabhai, Kiran Bedi (Indian Police Officer), Barkha Dutt (Reporter) and many other. They have achieved a great position in today’s world as compared to earlier years. In the early days, they were not allowed to go out and work as the thinking of people at that time was orthodox. They were not allowed to raise voice against injustice happening to them. Women’s were bound to stay at home and look after children and house. At some places they were treated like animals and no one used to defend them. There was gender discrimination at the time of birth, as birth of girl was considered bad luck. The old age traditions were also strict such as ‘Sati’ system. Girls were not allowed to study as they think that girls should know only household things and study and job is meant only for the boys and if girls are educated no one would marry them.
But nowadays, the whole trend has changed. Even the government is taking lot of steps to educate a girl and taking measures to save a girl child. Government is providing free education service to girls so that more and more girls are educated, as it is said that ‘If You Educate a Women You Educate Whole House’ and the generation ahead. In this age as compared to boys, girls are highly educated and are trying to attain that high position in the society.
Women have become more practical today. Besides the bigger and more noticeable changes which have widely affected the world is that there has been a subtle change of the role women play in the household. Eventually women’s’ image from being “housewife” or the primary homemakers and caretakers of the children has vanished. Now women and men are both bread earners, the stereotypical role of women is slowly dissolving and they are sharing the responsibilities that come with the house and family.
Despite of all these changes, still boys are preferred in many households across number of sects as they are considered superior compared to girls. Still the gender discrimination prevails in the society. Though women numbered more percent of the population, yet they are facing time and again various hurdles in life, unfair practices like gender discrimination, harassment and underestimation only because they are women. We must unite and eliminate this discrimination.
