Strength of a 'WOMAN'

A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape ...
but a woman of strength kneels in prayer to keep her soul in shape...

To be a woman is the most difficult proposition probably tougher than being Obama or Hu Jintao. It has always been tough being a woman since the inception of human civilization. Women have always played a critical role in the development of a Kingdom/State/Country - may it be Mariam-uz-Zamani (also Known as Jodha Bai) who played an integral role in the political affairs of Emperor Akbar’s court or First Lady Michelle Obama whose social campaigns have added to Obama administrations positive approval ratings. As a matter of fact, a close friend of mine who is married to an army captain in a candid confession mentioned that senior army officers appraise their juniors based on feedback received from their wives about the better half of their juniors officers’.

We celebrate a hundred years of Women’s day this year and reports suggest that we have grown from strength to strength each year. A recent study by the Bureau of Labor statistics (2011) show that women are the backbone of the U.S economy. A staggering Sixty percent of women are working while Forty-six percent form the labor force today.She is indeed not just a pretty face!


Lets face the truth - ‘She has the power to make the world go round’ but most of us do not realize this strength and even if we do some of us use it to degrade the gender. It is a very common discussion among peers that women use her sexuality to progress up the corporate ladder and thus leading to a widely held view that some of the women who have made it to the top may have taken the aid of their femininity to get there. An acquaintance of mine regrets certain decisions in his life and recalls how his ex-girlfriend (with poor working and language skills) used him as a resource to get an admission to an American University - he burnt his mid-night oil to write essays on her behalf, wrote recommendations for her. Unfortunately it does not just end there, she would constantly get her projects completed by him, only to realize later that she was cheating on him. Yikes! Wish such women were an exception.Danielle Chiesi is a perfect example of the breed which created waves in the investment world who was charged as part of the Galleon insider-trading ring. She used her sexuality to get insider trading information and pass it onto Raj Rajaratnam (Sri-lankan born American who founded the Galleon group -a New York based hedge fund management firm). At this juncture I am reminded what Mae West said “There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out”.

Women are the foundation of every household,society and a nation. A society would develop manifolds if such women could learn to keep their soul in place. We have the strength to rise above all challenges, we are more t

han just a pretty thing. As women we should uphold the integrity of being a woman. As women, we have taught the world over centuries to have patience, derive strength from our weaknesses, to adhere by and exceed ethical standards of where we work, study or live.

I feel blessed to be born as a woman and sometimes wish that God had not trusted me so much. As they say with ‘Great powers come great responsibility’.

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