The term woman often stands for weakness, goodness, power, strength, helplessness, willpower, determination, victim, etc. She has different positions in our society. In earlier days, we could visualise the conditions of women in a patriarchal society. We can draw a comparison, you know, between a woman and a tree. Just as the tree spreads its branches and those branches bear leaves, flowers, fruits, etc., in the same way a woman is the root of society, she is in fact the root of the whole creation. She is Shakti—the way of life.
If we look back to the early Vedic period, the position of women in society at that time was far better than the conditions of some women in today’s world. Women received education, and even though society was based on patriarchy, women were still treated with respect and devotion. They were given basic freedom. But if we see the later Vedas, we can say that their freedom was curtailed. Coming back to the present century, women are ahead of men. If not, at least they are on par with men. Everything is fine up to that point, but deep within lies the reality. Some males in today’s world even do not know how to treat their women. They even don’t pay any heed to providing for the woman. Women are taken for granted, whether they are housewives or working ladies.
The male in the family has to be treated as a man. But what about the woman? And if we talk about the rights of women, society will stamp us with the term feminist, but merely speaking out about what a woman likes, dislikes, wants, and needs is not right, or what? Actually, things should be equal—equal in behaviour, finance, and everything. But is it possible?
This picture shows us the reality of the conditions of some women in today’s world, where instead of loving together, only residing together is the only thing left.
So in some families the compatibility is more than enough and you know such families flourishes too. Flourish the word does not mean only financial flourishing or bloom. But flourish means mental, emotional blooming along with the financial blooming side by side. If both the man and wife are working and earning then it’s fine. And if the husband is working and the wife is a homemaker then also it will be fine. But if a woman is working but the male is not doing anything means contribution is null be it finance, emotional support, is it correct? Actually if we see properly, if the financial bloom is less but there is a very strong emotional and mental bloom then also we can see happy minds as well as happy faces, happy souls, happy families. But if it’s the topsy-turvy form, then forget about the happy faces, even the minds will not be at peace. And it is really a struggle for women to keep on searching for peace the whole lifespan. Is it mandatory to continue the life devoid of peace? Or is it OK to stay or compulsory to stay like that looking for mental peace everywhere?Exactly, what is for women then?
A man needs to be caring, and most importantly, he must be an alpha. His task is to provide, protect and produce. These 3 p’s should be there in a real man. But nowadays some men consider themselves to be an alpha that’s OK but the moment they are asked for providing, protecting and producing, they behave like a non-alpha. The irony lies there. Nowadays, men’s behaviour towards women is not acceptable actually in today’s century with so much of advancement in everywhere, be it technologically or educationally. People need to upgrade their mentality. Because even in today’s society with so much of advancement, we can see lack of understanding, lack of love, emotional support which in return is creating voidness in the life of women. A woman needs emotional support, mental support, physical support, financial support but instead of that if a woman gets taunts, disrespect regarding every matter where will her peace be?