Since ages, women have been an integral part of society acting as pillars of community building alongside their male counterparts. However, they’re often at margins and were deprived of basic political and humanitarian rights for the longest time in history. The progressive nature of any society is reflective in its idea of equity and gender equality, wherein the mainstream idea is to elevate those at margins by implementing policies of social welfare and upliftment.
Women are at centre of this social system, they not only act as caregivers and nurturer in the natural pretext but also move beyond that to establish an effective and socially balanced community. Empowering women is often equated with empowering the entire community.
For women, it is more than essential to move out of the rigid patriarchal systems that often restrict their role to that of caretakers in the society, in order to ensure establishment of inclusive and gender neutral social spaces. Those at power have a responsibility to ensure the existence of effective transition through implementation of required policies as a forefront step towards drawing a roadmap to the idea of a progressive state.