The Power of Women…!!!

Let me start off with Wishing everybody a Happy Women’s Day. In my humble opinion, we do not need and we should not have a day for celebration for women. Because it itself brings a dichotomy among us, the Humans.

But as we and the world celebrates a day for women across the world, let me draw some important points which shows the power with which the women are bestowed. A woman plays a role of a Baby, a Wife, Mother, a Mother in Law, a Sister, a Sister in Law, a Grandmother at different stages of life. This it-self has some sort of animosity for example, at one place where she is loved as a Daughter but suddenly bitched about where she is Daughter in Law. But then, I live in India where there are very high standards to treat women lower to the Men (Funny).

We Indians will fight for our religion and all for what we eat. For example, some people fight against Killing of Cow which is right in first place because Cow is worshipped as a mother in the religion. The problem of India is, we consider Cows as our mother, our country India as our mother, we shall kill and beat the shit out of somebody when somebody does anything to Cows and our India but when it comes to our own Mother or Daughter, we do not respect them. I am sure that some of the people of the country do respect the Female gender in any which way but Majority doesn’t and that’s my outrage for today. Why do we need to think before Respecting them? Are we in any which way superior to the other gender? Do we have superiority complex? Actually we have Inferiority complex that if we respect them and let them freely do what they want to, they will succeed in every field with us. You want Examples? Read below the power of women that has been enriching the state of Gujarat all this years. I am talking about Gujarat because that’s where I belong from and all this years I have experienced and noticed the POWER of WOMEN in every field.

 

1.    There is small village in Gujarat near city the spiritual city of Dakor. Due to reservation system, for one term of its Gram Panchayat, the Sarpanch (Panchayat Head) had to be a Woman. Also one third of the elected members had to be women. Now, to the surprise, the people of the village decided to give all the seats of the Gram Panchayat to Women and let them run the administration of the village for next five years. This was a sheer surprise because it was first time in the history of Gujarat that an entire 5 years term was to be fulfilled by only women. The village got a great luck ahead and the per capita income of that Village almost doubled. This is the proof that, apart from Businesses, Cooking, women are good at Administration too. Looking at this great thought, the Government of Gujarat announced a special status for all those Gram Panchayats who put all members as Women for the entire term. You all would be glad to know that there are 300 Villages today where the administration are run wholly by women and they are flourishing.

 

2.    Just give a thought. Can small shop of grocery can sustain against the Multinational chains of Super Stores? Take Pizza Hut as an example, can a small Haath Gaadi of Pizza sustain against Pizza Hut? No it cannot. But I shall give you a true story and example.  We have a chain of pizza selling vendors by the name of “Jashuben na Pizza” in Ahmedabad. They are immensely popular. And I would say it to the extent that, if there is a stall of Jashuben na Pizza near Pizza Hut, it is 100% surety that an Amdavadi would go for Jashuben na Pizza and not Pizza Hut. Jashuben who is no more, she passed away in Pune before 8 years, left a legacy of its Pizza with her hard work and has a huge market in the city of Ahmedabad.

 

3.    Have you ever been to a Fiver Star Hotel? If not, then just be to it. You will find a Food menu which will have Salads, Milkshakes, Dahi (Curd) and all. But you will never find the brand of that Dahi or Milkshake or Salad. You will not find Amul or Mother Dairy written against the Dahi. But you will find PAPAD which will be written as LIJJAT PAPAD. I have marked it. When you go next time, just mark it. I would urge all reading this to study about LIJJAT PAPAD. What is it? It is a consortium of tribal based Adivasi and uneducated women in the state of Gujarat which has started the idea of LIJJAT PAPAD. They started with the initial investment of Rs. 80/- and now they sell Papad worth Millions and Billions across the world. The whole administration is run by women and has turned into a cooperative society.

 

4.    In a village near a city in Gujarat, a group of some 20 odd women gathered together and formed a company by collecting their savings, got some grant from Government and some Bank Loan. They got themselves into service sector and presented themselves as Servers in events like Weddings, Gathering. Just by their serving itself, the expenditure of Food of events and waste of food got a considerable deduction.

 

I have seen in some houses when a father and his son are talking about some business stuff and the wife comes to give tea, then both of them stop talking and ask her to leave the place. We do not involve the other gender. I think our country’s economy shall boom up to 40-50% if women become equal partners in the growth. I think the Dairy industry is not just about man working for some brand, but it’s the tireless efforts of Women across the villages which makes a brand like AMUL in the world.

So this is a Power of Women. We just need to include them in our Decision making process. And that will help us make our country flourishing and nourishing. We know that there are Income Tax benefits for companies engaged in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). We should thrive towards handing that segment of the companies to Women of the group.

There are so many religions in which the female gender is not allowed to pursue higher education. Some religions have restricted the female’s education for some selected courses. Some religion do not allow their female population to work for a living because it is not safe for them. Albeit, what I think is let the women study and work and include them in the decision making process. And I am sure that we would not need another Women’s Day celebration. Just respect them and treat them equally and I am sure we won’t need reservations for women anymore and my country, our country would make it to the sky one day.

 

Happy Women’s Day…!!! May God Bless All…!!!