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I have heard, one of my male colleagues say, 'Women are lucky! Whenever you want to take rest, go for maternity leave, that too for six months.'
‘You are married still, we hired you…’
This was the statement given by my manager to one of the new joinee and of course she is a female. As if, he has done any sort of favour on her.
You hired her because she is experienced and very capable of delivering whatever is required for that role.
You won’t hear if any such statement given to a male counterpart, ‘That you are married, still we hired you.’
Because it is always believed that girls after getting married should not continue to work, as they won’t be efficient enough. They have other responsibilities to look after, and they will not stay at workplace till late as their male counterparts can.
They will take more leaves, for fasting or for following rituals (karwa chauth, teej) etc. Not only that, but they will take maternity leaves once they conceive. Then they will have kids to look after etc.
I have heard, one of my male colleagues say, ‘Women are lucky! Whenever you want to take rest, go for maternity leave, that too for six months.’
I was shocked to hear such statement, don’t you know or understand, what a woman goes through during that phase of her life. She is not having any fun. She is not chilling at home, watching movies and eating popcorn.
Likewise, she goes through a lot of change physically, mentally and emotionally.
Women at every point are being judged, and they always have that pressure to prove their worth, be it at home or be it in work place.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed, if I fail no one will say “she does not have what it takes”. They will say, “women do not have what it takes”. – Clare Boothe Luce (former US congresswoman)
This is so true; a woman represents her entire community, whereas a man represents only himself.
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Ms. Kulkarni, please don’t apologise ‘IF’ you think you hurt women. Apologise because you got your facts wrong. Apologise for making sexual harassment a casual joke.
If Sonali Kulkarni’s speech on most modern Indian women being lazy left me shocked and enraged, her apology post left me deeply saddened.
I’d shared my thoughts on her problematic speech in an earlier article. So, I’ll share why I felt Kulkarni’s apology post was more damaging than her speech.
If her speech made her an overnight hero among MRAs, sexists, and people who were awed by her dramatic words, then her apology post made her a legendary saint.
There are many mountains I need to climb just to be, just to live my life, just to have my say... because they are mountains you've built to oppress women.
Trigger Warning: This deals with various kinds of violence against women including rape, and may be triggering for survivors.
I haven’t climbed a literal mountain yet Was busy with the metaphorical ones – born a woman Fighting for the air that should have come free And I am one of the privileged ones, I realize that
Yet, if I get passionate, just like you do I will pay for it – with burden, shame, – and possibly a life to carry So, my mountains are the laws you overturn My mountains are the empty shelves where there should have been pills
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