Women and her career.

Promoting feminism just among women is not going to give a full fledged effect. It is in fact creating more stress for them. I am a person who strongly believes in gender equality. Women should not only be financially independent but also should be able to travel, make decisions and fix things independently.

In my opinion, ideal scenario would be both men and women get educated in their respective field, gets employed, marry and have kids but have some support from grandparents and day care centers. Have a work life balance, gets to travel with family and pursue hobbies of their own.

Now lets do some reality check. Due to globalization, people are moving all around the world. Some get employed but some don't, due to individual country’s policies. Sometimes a girl might be employed and a boy doesn't or vice versa. In that case, the boy who is a husband will be playing that support role till he finds a job. But unfortunately the world has more girls in that scenario playing support roles. The reason behind is that most countries including India does not allow women even today to be truly independent. My definition of truly independent is not just educating your girl child and allowing her to have career. If you want to make your daughter truly independent then allow her to drive vehicle like you would allow your son to do. Allow her to travel different countries at a very young age like you would allow your son to do so. Fix things, lead without any inhibitions and the list goes on. Times are improving and I do see many girls pursuing their higher studies abroad, but the numbers are too low making most of them to be on the disadvantageous side.

And in all honesty when that ideal scenario is missing, someone has to take a career break or do a part time may be, to handle that initial family commitments. If dad is working in military mom will stay home to take care of kids, drop them to school etc. Or when mom has a promising career, dad will be staying home to take care of kids. Now when you don’t make an issue out of dad staying home then stay at home moms also shouldn’t be the talk of the town. When both parents of young children decide to stay working then it needs an enormous level of mutual cooperation, support from many and work hours complementing each other.

Finally, financial independence is very important but that alone should not define anyone’s dignity. If a women of this century takes a career break then it is obvious that she is making a temporary sacrifice of her dreams and will definitely bounce back. She should be proud of herself for taking that interval and there is definitely no identity crisis involved. Women like in all generation are doing a great job, putting their foot forward, making their points clear and making gender equality possible day by day. So more blogs and videos in social media should promote feminism among men and other family members to give that freedom and equal platform for her.