Monday, January 25, 2016

Does empowering women means de-empowering men?

While empowering  women in unintrinsic fields, men will be  automatically de-empowered and vice versa, and if the number  of women empowerment  areas increase exponentially, especially in societies where the scopes and opportunities are at their lower level, the male of the specie would be  pushed back from its traditional positions and the gap would not be acceptably filled.  Women empowerment is a fascinatingly catchy phenomenon, but if not properly understood and implemented, it is bound to be unfulfilling ------, particularly for the women, this shattering story moves when--------------------------

 
      the Open merit seats of  professional colleges are occupied  mostly by the females, letting more book bound and less exposed  professionals to be  churned out,  consequently male of the specie will have to go for the secondary  fields of education  that will  compel them to  earn by opting vulnerable areas of employment,  while their female class fellows will take home their degrees  to  pack them in dowry bags  or few of them will trek the safer zones( as witnessed--doctors teaching  O/A level students, women with commerce degrees tutoring  economics in intermediate colleges) http://tribune.com.pk/story/322494/wastage-of-resources-majority-of-female-doctors-are-non-practising/


  The second act starts when a lesser degree holder,  unemployed person tries  for a vacant seat  and as the company  is an equal opportunity employer ,the chances are, any woman will fill  the vacancy since  she can be  easily managed, moulded and terrified with lesser pay, more working hours, while  adding  to the office  attraction.

Visualize the house of the empowered mother, where she  is  gone for the stretched working hour’s job leaving her house , children , old parents (sometimes the  angry stay home father as well )at the disposal of the untrained/unsympathetic maids. Children move to their dens with their iPods in prosperous households and to the streets in not so  lucky ones. Who is accountable for their social and moral upbringing?

   The impersonation sounds so familiar, because all those who have been   denied admissions and jobs, are no other than our brothers /fathers / and sons and the phenomenon of women empowerment  backlash us when they  are denied admissions in their natural fields remain jobless.
 (according to the Pakistan bureau of statistics the unemployment rate amongst the Pakistani youth  stands at the rate of 6.0 percent for the year 2015-2016).

Apart from financial constraints in the house, a man unemployed suffers serious personality disorders that include lack of empathy, parasitic lifestyle, self pity, alcoholism and smoking.
In extreme cases, unemployment becomes one reason for breaking the marital relationship as the person becomes incapable of going for long term commitments or the associations drag pitifully.  

 The empowered woman is actually a disconsolate woman in most ways (exceptions are always there) as  House and Family is woman’s natural domain, she is the one who  rear children, monitor educational activities steer the love and support relationship, fix financial matter. When she has to depart her true sphere of influence for one or the other reason, she is de-empowered unquestionably owing to undue interference. (try interviewing wife of an unemployed/recently retired  person)

“Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband’s) absence what Allah would have them guard.”(al Quran 4:34).

 Empowerment is vital, but more important is practicing it in the precise speciality.This phenomenon is dangerous and ought to be dealt with care. It follows the same rules as energy does, empowering one de-empowers other  ,  and if this energy is unable to deliver sufficiently and in the vital  areas the societies get plagued with social diseases like incest, broken homes , single parent families , rising rates of suicides a amongst youth. Empower both the sexes but where their natural instincts belong to.


“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” 
 
Lou Holtz