WOMEN IN NATION BUILDING

WOMEN'S ROLE IN NATION BUILDING

PONMALAR

 

  Now, who is a woman? A woman is your mother, a woman is your sister, a woman is your friend, a woman is your classmate, a woman is your teacher. In future, you will meet a woman as your wife. There is a woman in every part of our life. Women are very important in every person's life. An old phrase states that behind every successful man there is a woman. But, i say that every woman plays an important behind every successful nation.

  We all know that before now every where, women are not given chance to discover themselves to be what they want to be. The general believe everywhere is that a woman's place is in her husbands home that is where they feel she can displace all the God given talent that she has there is this believe that she can't be useful in any other but there. So most culture believe training a woman those days, was just a waste of time and resources that's why when a woman those when when a women is educated up to the primary level she is asked to stop there while her brothers go further to the higher institution. And she is married off from there some parents even tell those women that want to be educated further to continue from their husbands houses while they bear him kids. And this men they get married to with they fear that the women will get to know more than they do now refuse to allow them to continue after they married them. But time has shown that educating a woman is no more waste of time and those parent who did it have lived not to regret it, but to thank god that they did.

   The active participation of women would lead to develop of peaceful and just society. For overall development of women in the country, focus must be given on factors like education, gender, friendly laws, strong political commitment for women development, mainstreaming of women issues, empowerment, and increment of women participation and creation of effective environment for development. For sustainable peace and strong nation building, it is important to transform the traditional role of women as "Ambassador of Social Peace and Warrior of Nation Building" and formulate policies, planning and programs according to it. Likewise, it is equally important that women establish themselves as active and able actors of society in nation building process.

   Women participation in nation building is important in achieving an equitable, peaceful and more prosperous society. Women play a special role in the overall development of the country. "There is no chance for the welfare of the world of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to on one wing." Today educated women have come out of their inferiority complex and are shouldering all kinds of responsibilities, as managers, officers, TV and radio news reader, pilots, Ministers, Anchors, Musicians, Clerks, Stenographers, and what not?

  In our homes or houses today women are the ones who see to it that things are managed well and that things are managed well and that things are managed well and that things go the way it ought to go, this type of passion that this women have in managing their home's is what they also carry to their work place to work with, even those who are not married also have this passion of i must make things go right. I think God just gave all women that passion that was why he did not make it a all men world.

  Political abuse of power, violations of human rights, mismanagement of their economy, and under development have been Sordid realities of the past four decades when we have men in the saddle of power. The fact of an emerging spectrum of feminine leadership resources across the continent is no longer controvertible. Each country in Africa is birthing women professionals that can catapult the continent the new heights where they given a chance. Gender equality presupposes giving a chance to a marginalized gender(in this case,women). The saddle of leadership is long overdue to be ceded to the feminine gender, where we to eschew prejudice, bias chauvinism subjectivism and other less than wholesome oddities of the human nature, it would be obvious in no time how much progress would be made by this great continent in the area of good governance, infrastructural development, rule of law, economic stability and progress, health education and e.t.c.

  In a nutshell, making concessions for the feminine gender to have a shot of leadership does not erode the leadership of men over them nor does it make a woman not to be a woman. Let the woman of Malaysia have chance at leadership so that we can move forward. You educate a woman to educate a Nation.