Changing Face of Indian Women

A woman’s life passes through many phases and while passing through each phase she takes a new birth. Neither the time nor the pain ceases for a woman. The agony she carries throughout her life enlightens the spirit within her giving a radiant spark to her persona.
Unfortunately, woman the most beautiful creation of god who is imbued with immense qualities like affection and tolerance has been projected as a vulnerable gender since time immemorial.
Her very own existence has been kept suppressed under the old clichéd social norms and beliefs, making it next to impossible for her to come out of the shackles of the tradition bound society. Her domain was aligned from a meaningful evolution of phases. Her existence has always been threatened on the verge of diminition.
The agony of carrying forward the legacy of pain by the woman of each generation is making the condition even more miserable. It seems pain and woman is more of synonymous refusing to get separated from each other. The never ending struggle tells the heart wrenching saga where she has always been exploited in every aspect. Be it as a daughter, mother, wife or a working woman.
Though we have Kiran Bedi, late Kalpana Chawla, late Indira Gandhi as excellent examples who had carved a niche for themselves and became a source of inspiration for many of those women who are getting motivated for achieving something big in life.
Yet our society is clutched with scores of social evils, which are designifying the existence of women and also hindering their way in coming forward. Moreover, increasing growth rate in crimes against women be it inside or outside the household telling grim reality of women’s lives.
This would infact be called the paradox of modern Indian society where on one hand women are excelling in every field while on the other major chunk of women are still deprived of their fundamental rights. They are subjected to discrimination in this patriarchal structure of our society and skewed sex ratio against them is one of the evident indications of this discrimination among women.
But with the advent of new era, society is witnessing few revolutionary changes in women of current generation. Those women who fought for their identity and made possible the emergence of the ‘new woman’. It took plenty of years to break the shackles of orthodox mannerism, now the whole scenario is on the verge of changing equation.
Today, Indian women are given right to enter the panchayats and local bodies where 1.4 million women were elected to local bodies, that clearly advocate that women have started getting their share of equality. Besides, town like Hissar, which touted to have warped sex ratio, has become hub of producing around 40 international women wrestlers and boxers. Thus telling the success story of women empowerment.
Today’s woman is emerging as a winner with distinction in her new facet of life. The new woman yearns for her independent identity where she will no more be dependent on her counterpart for the livelihood. Her quest for living her life on her own terms is making her to strive hard for the fulfillment of her dreams. She has come out of the shell strongly built around her, which took her a century to break, and now she wants to enjoy long awaited freedom, which can fill her soul with purity of opportunities, no conspiracy at all.
These are women who have achieved with their sheer determination and proved out to be an ideal for other women. These women are excelling in their personal life as well. The untouched avenues are no longer distant from today’s women.
These are the women who self portray their winning saga. Each carrying a unique story to tell yet shares a common struggle part in their life, which actually lifted them to reach so high.
Devoting one’s life without any self-interest is an act of appreciation and only a few of us can think beyond. These are women who thought beyond where most of us find end of the horizon of thoughts.
Life to the most of these women was never a bundle of choices but they made their own way out of their discretion and proved to be a winner. These are the women who devoted their life for a cause and kindled faith in many hearts and inspired many others to give a meaning to their existence. Yet there are lots of hurdles on their way, the acceptance factor is yet to be strengthened. And while things are progressing on positive note as far as gender equality is concerned, there is no gainsay we have several challenges before us like female infoeticide, women struggling with poverty and maternal mortality which has yet to be solved to provide solidarity to changing face of Indian women.