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Women are always taken for granted, minimized, infantalized, deemed invisible in society. For, isn't this still a man's world?
Women are always taken for granted, minimized, infantalized, deemed invisible in society. For, isn’t this still a man’s world?
Why would you hand me over the bill? Am I capable of having money? No, I am the girl who sits at home like she is supposed to… No, which women has money at her control or even if she does, which girl wants to spend money, she is just a gold digger…
Why would you take directions from me? Am I capable of telling you where I want to go? No, unless the man next to me gives directions of the routes to the home I lived for 25 years I can’t really go home… Why would women know the routes, aren’t they just supposed to sit at home and never go out
Why would you recognise me at office? Am I even worth being there?
No, I managed a job doesn’t mean I know ‘the office space’ or I understand shares, cars because you know it is just a guy thing- dealing with money plus I am not serious about my job, I don’t understand the burden of financially supporting a family because mine is an additional income and I will anyway quit office once I am married or have a child!
Isn’t it easy to just ignore our existence…… Oh yes it is and you have been doing it everyday!
This is in the background of how a lot of us are ignored, -in office spaces in important discussions & decisions -when the man next to us gets the bill though we have a 50% share or sometimes even 100% -when taxis or auto refuse to take directions from us rather wait for the man next to us direct
and many such…..Please share any such experience you had!
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Yuvaraj Shele, a small-time worker from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, did battle many odds and arranged for his mother Ratna’s wedding a few weeks ago. The main point that he put forth was that he felt his mother was lonely and saw the need for her to live happily.
A myth that goes without saying is that only a woman can understand another woman better. What happens when a man does understand what a woman goes through? Especially when the woman is his mother, that too when she is a widow?
This scene does remind of a few movies/web series where the daughter/son do realize their mother’s emotions and towards the end, they approve of their new relationship.
Just because they are married a husband isn’t entitled to be violent to his wife. Just because a man is "in love" with a woman, it doesn't give him a right to be violent.
Trigger Warning: This speaks of graphic details of violence against women and may be triggering for survivors.
Anger is a basic human emotion, just like happiness or being sad. One chooses his/her way of expressing that emotion. It is safe until that action stays within oneself.
What happens when that feeling is forced upon another? The former becomes the perpetrator, and the latter turns out to be the victim.
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