Women empowerment in today’s era

How realistically Tennyson has described the miserable condition of the women in the past. Earlier they were used as commodity which were purchased and sold just to make them perform certain functions. But gone are the days, now we have stepped into the modern age, the age of women empowerment where half of the population of women is empowered. Outcomes are in the form of Pratibha Patil, Indra Nooyi, Kalpana Chawala, Aishwarya Rai, Katrina Kaif, Priyanka Chopra and the list goes on.

Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Why do women occupy fewer leadership roles today?

Suffrage may have been achieved a century ago, and the right to work about 60 years ago, but that has not placed a damper on the age-old stereotype casting women into the realms of domesticity for life. Formidable feminist ancestors such Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, Savitribai Phule, Sarojini Naidu, and many other powerful women fought for their successors rights to equal opportunity and equality. India may have a law against monetary discrimination on the basis of gender, but that hasn’t stopped evidence of discrimination from being blatantly obvious.