Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Man is a bread winner and woman the keeper of the home.Man fights the battle of life,which is no easy task,for it is attended with many failures and disappointments.Woman comforts him in such circumstances and encourages him to fresh efforts with renewed vigour and energy.This has been the arrangement of family life in the past and will continue to be so,so long as women represent love,kindness and sympathy.As long as she retains her womanly virtue,she is an angel improving the lot of man and leading him to high ideals and noble deeds.The importance of woman in the life of a country cannot be over estimated.The idea that the home is a woman's only proper sphere has disappeared with the spread of female education.She is now equal partner in life with man and it would be doing her grave injustice is she were denied her rightful place in society.She must have an equal chance in life and be allowed to have her say in all matters of importance.There are many problems in which she may be interested and of which she may have better knowledge.Her taking part in these would lead to better and far reaching results.Her views on child welfare,maternity,widow marriage,female education and the like,are likely to be more valuable than those of man.It has been proved beyond the shadow of doubt that organization for the advancement of women,which women themselves have set up in recent years in different countries have done much good to humanity.There is no denying that woman is an equal partner with man in all affairs of life.It is,therefore,expected that she will take part in politics too.She must be allowed to give her opinion in legislative matters,being equally a subject to the State.It will serve to complete the otherwise incomplete picture of man's politics.She has the same political rights and privileges as man and must be allowed to exercise them for the progress of the whole nation.In intellect she is in no way inferior to man and there is no reason why she should not prove her worth in political life.Women have shown themselves to be a wise politicians,scholars,poetessess,orators,lawyers,judges and administrators.History tells us that women like Queen Elizabeth,Queen Victoria,Mrs.V.L Pandit(sister of late Prime Minister of India,Mr.Nehru) and many others proved to be highly capable and they have won prominent places in political history.But the picture of the relation between man and woman in Asia and Africa is a deplorable one.While Mrs.V.L Pandit,Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Mrs. Bandaranaike are doing much useful work to uphold the name of the women in Asia,the vast majority of women in Asia and in Africa are like caged birds.They are ignorant of world events and uninterested in the changes of the outside world.They are not allowed to go beyond the daily roution of their household duties.To make the women in Asia and in Africa as equal partners in life,we have to provide every possible facility for their education and intellectual and moral development.It is essential for a better and fuller life for the nation.Time demands that women in these countries should occupy their rightful place in the home and the country.
AISHA : Can I fly Over The Rainbow Like The Bluebirds?
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