PROVING YOUR WORTH AS A
WOMAN
I
give great praise to the Almighty God who created a woman. You must agree with
me that a woman is nature’s most beautiful creature regardless of the race,
religion, origin, level of education and intellectual understanding.
Without
going any further into the religious perspective of this, I want to zero down
to the gist of the matter, a woman’s worth. Through the recent world evolution,
a woman’s worth has as well evolved to a level that we term as woman
emancipation. Question is, “Is a woman’s capabilities, growth and development
in the society being valued to optimum despite the existence of woman
emancipation?” Take a second and think about it and personally, this is how I
see it.
Whatever
a woman does, she must do twice as well as a man to be thought half as good.
Therefore because you are a woman you must make unusual efforts to succeed. If
you fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women
don’t have what it takes.”
Despite
a woman’s beautiful nature, I believe that a woman should be valued for her
brains rather than her physical appearance. Many women’s careers have been
crumbled, crashed and stepped on by people in superior positions as a failure
to comply with unprofessional advances towards them and at the end of the day;
they drop out of the race of becoming one of the next best successful
persons.
It
takes a woman with great determination, self esteem and great principles to
manoeuvre through such hindrances. This is when you see the likes of Hillary
Clinton, emerging and rising up as the few successful ones. Have you ever
wondered what they have had to endure to get there, how much they have had to
prove their worth, how they still have to prove their capability everyday to
those they serve?
I
applaud Rotary for giving women an equal opportunity to lead and serve their
communities as well as men. If we continue to have very many organisations like
this, am sure that we shall be moving towards the right direction of gender
equality.
President Sharifa
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