Feminism: Journey of an evolution of the oppressed

We here a lot about feminism and women empowerment daily over the news and read a lot of articles on the same on various social media platforms. Lately it has been a key issue of concern not even sparing global giants, one of which was accused with a case of women harassment in one of the software based transportation network company while another had the accusation of paying its female CEO less in comparison to her male predecessor . So over the course of this blog, let us understand the issue of "Women harassment and feminism", try to understand the root problem which has caused women to be on the receiving end of a really shameful act on human race and also see how, we can try to resolve a few of these issues.

As one of my professors at college always said let's start with the basics. What does feminism mean? Feminism refers to the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes, the google definition there. When we think of the idea of feminism we need to give a significant importance to the fact that over the hundreds and thousands of years of past that the mankind has evolved we have always kept women locked up inside our houses, for a really large portion of the history. Women were restricted on every aspect from wearing what they like to even doing the work that they loved to do. Women in certain regions and religions have even been stopped from going out to places they like. All this was done simply because they were women and men(also the elderly women from the family) believed that it was wrong for a woman to do all these things. So there is our first root problem we faced in having an equality irrespective of the gender; the thinking/mentality that a almost all men (and the elderly women in the family). The man always believed that the woman was meant to be locked up in between four walls of a house, the woman who wanted to go out and enjoy the beauty of the world at a young age started to believe that it was wrong for her daughter to do what she loved. All this, ladies and gentlemen, were again for two primary reasons; one being that fact that the mother was never allowed to do any of them and she expected her daughter to oblige by the same and the second, also the more important factor, being the fear of physical abuse by men. That brings us to our second key problem which has caused women to be locked  up which is physical abuse.

Though physical abuse on women has been largely condemned lately, we still have thousands of cases which simply don't come out to light and women are still suffering. A large portion of women who have been victims of physical abuse don't come out and take advantage of the rules that have been framed to protect them in the fear of harm to their loved and dear ones. The mental scar that a case of physical abuse could leave on an individual and her family is really damaging and long lasting. Well when we try to understand the possible reasons for the physical abuse by a man on a women one of the reason turns out to be another woman. Though unintentional on the woman's part, men getting attracted to other women leading to adultery in many cases lead to a bad/failed relationship between a husband and wife. When things get out of control and wife starts questioning the husbands actions, there have been and there still are a lot of cases where, the husband gets annoyed for no reason (even though the fact is that he is at fault) and subjugates wife by physical abuse. The other woman concept of reason could also be applied to the mother daughter scenario i presented earlier.

Now coming to the differentiation and issues that have been

troubling women lately, in the present. Women being payed less, women being treated below her male counterpart and all other issues that are happening in the corporate world are simply due to the impact the above discussed process of women suppression has had on our subconscious. We have developed a pre-conceived thought that women can not perform as good as men because of her not having experience in the domain, not being able work during her periods, blah blah blah and what not. It is the impact of all that our ancestors have done over the past that goes in and sits deep inside our minds, not just the men, even the women as well think so subconsciously. This results in them accepting lesser pays for the same job as their male counter parts, them tolerating harassment till it goes out of control and so on. Adding to this huge factor of mental impact on our subconscious is the way women warn men. The women who undergo, or see signs of harassment do not stand up strongly against the men who harass them and make a firm statement in many cases which makes the men get bolder. The harassing men get emboldened by the thought that the woman is not going to raise her voice and goes on harassing the woman.

When we consider this issue of women oppression we can see that the mentality of people over the past course of human history, the physical abuse, Adultery/ relationships with another woman, fear of harm to near and dear ones and also not taking a strong stand against the harasser have led to woman being harassed in more or less every aspect of her life in one or the other way. A woman has to take a strong stand and fight against harassment, if not the harassed then nobody else can fight her case. And when there is a will to fight, there is always a way to fight and stand up, come out clean and build a better future for our younger generations to come. These were a few views that I had on women harassment and oppression, if you feel there could be more then feel free to comment them below and we can have a discussion on the same. 



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