Introduction
Since ancient times, men and women have been playing a fixed role. One the one hand, males have been blessed with more importance due to various factors such as building of civilisations, hunting, getting food as well as other explorations over ages. In contrast, women have not been appreciated for their subtle contribution in fostering culture amongst many other things. As change is the truth and essence of life, even old traditions and policies have to give a way to new ones. Over the course of time, women have been proving their worth in diversified fields, even as a large chunk of male population continues to be the breadwinner of the household.
Transformation in World Order
Last few decades have seen the time where women have proved their mettle. Among the examples signifying the empowerment of women in today’s world are the election of Julia Gillard in Australia or even Dilma Vana Linhares Rousseff in Brazil.
This change in order poses interesting question like what if women played a more decisive and powerful role and come to dominate the world in the times to come! It is evident from the role women have been playing in today’s society. Even as males are not comfortable with the idea of women being equal, they have to accept that women power is here to stay and is only likely to increase. First Woman Prime Ministers such as Indira Gandhi of India and Margaret Thatcher of England have proven their leadership quality. Not only in politics, now women have their involvement in intellectual, creative and scientific fields with superb elegance. They have also managed to set high standards for world to see and get motivated through outstanding examples of social service. Mother Teresa, Oprah Winfrey, Coco Chanel, Marie Curie, Madonna, Angela Merkel, Indra Nooyi, Angela Merkel, Aung Sang Suu Kyi amongst others have proved their mettle in their respective fields and are role models for many to follow the same path. Although they may be small in number, there are still many who are making best efforts to make their mark in this male-dominated world. This new scenario has given a hope to young women as traditional societies only witnessed women lending a shoulder to men in their various pursuits, whereas their own power or abilities remained untapped.
Women are regarded as multi tasker by being perfect in roles of mother, sister, etc. Women bring a certain level of compassion, love, beauty and virtue to the everyday life making it more meaningful. A World Bank study had discovered that in countries where parliament has higher number of women, there is lower level of corruption.
India has taken many steps in empowering women over time by introducing steps such as reserving one third of seats in parliament and various welfare schemes. Increasing number of women in business world such as Biocon founder Kiran Shaw also states the fact that women have good business acumen. There are different views on the topic that if women do rule the world, the chances of wars that caused so much loss to the world may have been lesser. Despite males being physically stronger, women are more emotionally stronger than them. Diversity of people plays an important role in infusing better and fresh ideas.
While men are easy to please in some reliable ways, women are more devious and complicated making them capable of being nasty in a silent manner. In addition, the kinder nature of women would also make them more determinant to fight for ensuring better condition for children of the world.
Flipside
As there are always two sides of coin, there is also a flipside to things. Even though they do possess the right attitude and ethics to get the work done, being gentle in nature makes it difficult for them to handle a situation where they have to crack the whip on people. Although women are considered to be headstrong, the way men impose their decisions and authority is uncommon with a lot of women.
Conclusion
We can only ponder over the issue, but it is really impossible to predict the result if women started ruling the world. However, there exists one strange truth that men want to remain in power, whereas women do not wish to have it so much that they can make them let go of it.
Yes, it is difficult for sceptics to swallow this, but this phenomenon may arise sometime in future. If it does come true, the world would never be the same place again.