WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP – NEED OF THE DAY !!!

WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP – NEED OF THE DAY !!!

In a world that’s changing, hopefully for the better, it is so crucial to envisage it as being led by women. Aggressive, masculine leadership has brought us to the brink of disaster. Unbridled parasitic capitalism, unfettered consumerism, excessive and unwarranted production and consumption, lifestyles devoid of calmness and peace and almost irreversible destruction of the habitat – what have men got us to!!! Women now are and must take charge. Their voices, alternatives, strategies and humaneness is the key to our survival. 

World over women are slowly and steadily marching into bastions long held by men. Religion is one of them. The misappropriation, misinterpretation and manipulation of religion has wrecked havoc in the lives of women all over the world and across all times and places. This manipulation has impacted social and cultural norms, which in turn has reduced women to non-beings. Dowry deaths, acid attacks, domestic violence, rape and murder form the horrendous combination of atrocities man have inflicted on women and justified it in the name of religion and cultural mores.

Women in order to crack into this religion-culture-tradition hegemony must first understand that this is MANIPULATION. God or creator of all does not discriminate. God judges, but not on the basis of your sex. For this manipulation to end, women must take over the institution of religion and turn it into a source of strength and compassion. And for it to happen, as Murabit Allaa says, women must be on the table. Men must gear up to vacate that space or atleast be ready to surrender to the new leadership. No decisions to be taken at the table that defies the humanness of women. When women talk of the humanity within religions, she is creating a substitute narrative and challenging the distorted religious dictates. And it is time the world lets her do that.