Fight For Survival Till The Last Breath

What does it take to be an independent and outspoken woman in a male-dominated society?

I have found the answer to this question in the lives of many unknown women around me. Women who have been never accepted the social norms, who are wrestling with society  to keep their heads held high despite the insults and the demeaning words that they face at home, in the workplace, and even while walking down the roads. Life is a constant struggle, a fight against everything and everyone around her. For a girl the battle for her life commences right from the day she is conceived in her mother’s womb. Her existence, her survival, is unpredictable as in every 12 seconds, a baby girl is aborted. That's about 7,000 girls killed every day just because they are females. It seems more tragic when a mother, for whatever reason, ends the life of her own child merely because she is a girl. Whether the decision is taken under social or family pressure but the fact remains constant that a girl child is unwanted. She is nothing but an object for fulfillment of a man’s sexual desires, and the provider of a womb to bear his children.

If she manages to survive, than her parents took her as a burden because of various traditional belief and misconceptions of the society. She is often brought up in an atmosphere where the family would have rather preferred a boy in her place. She has to struggle at every step of her life, whether it is for her survival, her education, her rights, her freedom or for status in the society. She has to fight alone for herself. There is no one to stand for her. A girl love her parents till the end for life though she is an unwanted child for them but a boy throw her parents out of his house and still he is the “apple of the eye” of his parents.    

Today’s girl has prove herself in every field, whether it is Politics, Media, Management, Law or any field, she has come out  with glowing colours than a boy. She can do everything that a man can do and moreover more perfectly than a boy. We live a country which was once run by the women and still in that country a women is disrespected, treated like garbage of the house, as an unwanted part of the society. We live in a country, where goddess is worship but in the same country girls are disrespected in every possible way they can be. Why it is so? Why people are double faced? They should stop worshiping the goddess after all they are also women. One side you are ill-treating them and other side you are worshiping them.            

The hatred towards girls has grown up so much that it has brought to the system of eliminating the girl child – the vulnerable and unwanted gender, in the womb, before she sees the world. The pathetic situation is that women are forced to endanger their own species either in the womb by practicing female feticide or at birth by practicing female infanticide or after birth by way of neglect.

But if the girl power combine them and fight for their rights, than we can change the scenario. I know the path is very rough and filled with various obstacles but yet it is not impossible. It takes time, but changes will come. There are miles to go before we sleep.

Posted By: Samiksha Jain, brand ambassador "MY VOTE FOR a BETTER INDIA" social initiative by "Pickyouropinion.com".