Today’s women-empowered

There is really no word to describe today’s women, empowered and independent and demanding. She gets what she wants. The change has taken place very fast. Everybody hoped that she will still retain the basic instincts of family and values relationships.

It is true that once upon a time her opinion was no opinion. It will be generally vetoed by the men in the family. Today’s woman has her opinion and she also dares to defend it. If she is right, she wins and if she loses, still she wins. Today’s women prefer economic independence and go for jobs to earn money. She is well educated oozes with sexuality. She dares to prefer job instead of marriage. She also prefers to choose her own soul mate. If things do not click to her satisfaction, she is prepared to part ways. She wants to enjoy life at any cost, in filmy style. Technologies, consumer goods and automobiles are feminized to target the new liberated women.

But, what we witnessed on the Women’s Day shocked us. I quote the two incidents to which I and my wife were the witnesses on the Women’s Day.

1. Scene: A car parked in front of a Mall. The car was locked, the parking lights were on. One mobile phone was on the dashboard. A small girl, may be of one and half years, was sitting in the front seat and crying loudly which could be heard even through the closed windows. One lady in pants, about 35 years old, probably the girl’s mother, was talking to the girl through the glass window, asking the girl to stop crying. She was telling the child that her dad is going to come within two minutes. I too was waiting for my car, to load the grocery bags from the trolley. I was there for full 15 minutes. They were still waiting for the child’s dad to open the locked car. All this time, the child was crying and the lady was trying to console her. My queries as to what happened remained unanswered. My vehicle came and I went away wondering when the small girl’s papa will come and release the girl from her confinement. I could only pity the girl child and couldn’t sleep that night. Flashes of the child shouting, with tears rolling was haunting me. Do we have any laws to tackle such type of irresponsible parents?

2. Scene: A higher income group housing society. Time about 9 p.m. Two children 2 years and 8 years old are standing near the main entrance to the building. A watchman was doing his duty of opening and closing of the gates as the cars come inside the compound. We too happened to come back at that time after our evening stroll. We saw two familiar faces of the children looking at us, and we just wished them. The younger of the two said that their parents have gone out to drop somebody at the railway station and have not yet returned. He also said that he was feeling hungry. We didn’t have anything to offer at that time for the hungry children. We went home and my wife took a pack of cream biscuits and went down again to give to the children.

Very innocently, the children first refused the biscuits, but the smaller one just couldn’t control his hunger and grabbed the biscuits from my wife’s hands and started eating. The elder one was not willing to take initially, and then accepted saying thanks. Then he also told us not to tell this to their parents and requested us to leave them alone lest their parents will see us giving them biscuits. Again, the incident of a young mother enjoying herself leaving the small hungry children to fend themselves was haunting me for some time.

Later on, we came to know that this is the common practice with many young couples of leaving children in the building and go away for fun drives. These incidents may be of very minor nature and least traumatizing type which we witnessed. We realized that the new liberated women are capable of much more ruthless acts against their children.

Society needs women who are educated and liberated, but still caring for relationships, be loved for love sake and have the emotions which are binding her with her family. That will be the ideal woman. What you think?