Empowering women with bold action

a renowned business networking forum celebrated International Women’ Day with theme of this year as – “Be Bold for Change”. Every person can play a part in helping drive better outcomes for women. Through meaningful celebration and targeted bold action, we all can be responsive and responsible leaders in creating a more gender inclusive world.

With some distinguished Panelists – Gowriishwaran, Padmashri and Founder Principal of Sanskriti School, Meera Balachandran, Founder Principal of Ramjas School R K Puram and Monica Sagar, Principal Shiv Nadar School, Gurgaon – Reciprocity put up some strong questions regarding women empowerment in our country to which the panelists gave a fitting reply:

-Gender bias begins at home when parents express preferential treatment & intent for the male child;

- Educate the men at home to think equally in order to be fair;

- What a man can do, a woman can too. Bring in this culture from the start at home;

- If we feel that our conditioning plays a role in who we are today, then also be informed that we alone have the power to change our conditioning. We carry a responsibility as women not just for ourselves but for all other fellow women too because when we change, we influence other women and that can truly change the world;

- When we say ‘women’, the word oppression comes to mind instantly. If not oppression, role playing comes to mind. Go do what your heart says;

- Women don’t have to fit into a man’s world. They are capable of making their own world, their own way!