Many readers will throw a glance at the title of this article and think- “Really?” Yes. Really! Let us take a look at the how’s and why’s.
A woman has the power within her to create, nurture and convert or revamp. A woman is a full circle, far more powerful than she herself realises!
Dutifully performing multiple roles as caring mothers, devoted wives, doting daughters and competent workmates women are the backbones of any society without doubt. Unfortunately, they are also the undervalued, undermined and taken for granted factions of the society. Living under the invisible bondage of prejudice that has been passed onto generations for centuries, causing the still prevailing restraints, women …show more content…
They face all sorts of atrocities and injustice, having a very limited access to justice or knowledge about their own rights.
Solutions
The single most effective way is the empowerment of women.
As far as HIV/AIDs is concerned, empowerment of women is not an option but the remedy to a grave disease that can cause suffering and deaths of innocents. Here’s why-
This is the only way to ensure gender equality.
This is the only way to ensure better education for women.
This is sole way to ensure their economic independence.
This is the only way to ensure the most basic of rights- right to live healthy!
All these will in turn make women more confident, more aware of their own rights and equip them with the strength to stand up and fight for those rights. In short empowerment gives the women their identity!
Many have this misconception that empowering women is translated as more power to women as compared with men! What is aimed by women empowerment is the elimination of gender inequality by ensuring equal power to women, so that they take charge of their own lives confidently and stand up for themselves. It is time everyone realised that empowering women also guarantees in effect the rights/health/power/economy of the households, communities and nations as