The Power of Daughters, Wives, and Mothers

“Nehaa is a Daughter since 1971, a wife since 1994 and a mother since 1995”. This is how Nehaa S. Patil describes herself in her profile. She is the founder and chairman of an NGO “Modern rural Architects of rural khurukshetras” whose mission is to empower people with knowledge and resources to manage their lives in a better manner and raise their quality of life. She represents a woman in the modern world who is successfully playing so many roles simultaneously. In another corner of the world, more than three decades ago, Wangari Maathai came up with the idea of using economic incentives to encourage rural women and farmers to plant trees on their land to protect the environment and promote sustainable development. In 2004, Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the Green Belt Movement, a non-profit NGO she founded in her native Kenya. Like Nehaa and Maathai, there are millions of women across the globe that is continuously thriving for their own space, identity, respect and not the least, power. Power for taking financial control of their households or to lead the top corporate house of the world or to serve the society.

The world is still recuperating from the disastrous effects of “MANCESSION” by taking a drug called “SHECONOMY”. These two newly coined terms denote a clear fact that Men were the main victims of the recession. The recovery will be female. Unemployment figures in a recession hit country like United states show men at 9.9 percent and women at 7.8—but not enough to stop Larry Summers, the US president’s top economic adviser, from speculating recently, that “when the economy recovers, five years from now, one in six men who are 25 to 54 will not be working.” If they are lucky, they’ll have wives wh...

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... be increasingly put in question and where women can be women and bring to bear their different attitudes, perspectives and insights.

In the end, I would like to say if I were a woman reading an India today magazine 40 years ago; the odds were good that my husband provided the money to buy it. My son was heading to college but not my daughter. That my boss, if I had a job, could explain that he was paying me less because, after all, I was probably working just for pocket money. It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. The biggest challenge for women is their ability to multi-task as life and careers will go simultaneously. The Gender bending is ready to grip the entire globe with feminism. Thus, this is just the beginning of a tsunami of change which acknowledges the fact the best man for the job will be a woman.