Women marching towards the Path of Progress - Vision 2020

In today’s materialistic world, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration if one says that there is no terrain on which a woman has not set her foot upon. There’s no doubting that a today’s woman can accomplish anything.

 

We have women like Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairman of Biocon Limited; Nandita Das, the award-winning film-maker and noted environmentalist; Ritu Kumar, the leading woman fashion designer; Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy; noted journalist Padmashri Burkha Dutt; NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams etc upon whom one can look for and make them as their role models. Even Sonia Gandhi is listed 17^th among the 50 most powerful people on the earth in ‘Newsweek’ for her active role in the politics of the world’s largest democracy.

We have movies like Chak De India which proved that the physical strength is not the only parameter required to win but it’s the strength of the mind and the will power, which we have been witnessing in women, of late! It’s a fact that there were a lot of debates on a female voice put to comparison with that of a male. But things have proved quite contrary to the so-called presumptions and have now reached a point where the men will have to be more cautious in competing with the women.

It is 2009 now and we are witnessing a resurgent woman taking the pole position and a small thought of vision 2020 only zeroes down to a situation where men might be taking a backstage and women might just be leading from the front. Let’s hope for this to become a stark reality!