Empowerment of Women

EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN Empowerment of women cannot be achieved by encouraging them to enter every field of life. A better approach would be to increase their knowledge, skills, alertness, and awareness in their sphere of activity. The more a woman is endowed with these qualities, the more effective will be the part she plays in the activities of daily life. An intellectual woman can perform the greatest of services, whereas if she is left ignorant and untutored, she will never—even if she is brought to the forefront of things—be able to play a role of any significance. Many women in history have never emerged from their homes but significantly influenced the outside world. The allegation that women cannot perform excellent services when confined to the house is refuted by Islamic history. Home management is also undoubtedly great work, but women can certainly perform the work concerning the outside world without putting themselves into uncongenial surroundings or forcing themselves to play unfamiliar roles for which neither training nor biology has fitted them. It is a little-understood fact that a woman’s role does not depend on her physical environment but on the degree to which her intellect has been cultivated. To progress, it is not binding that she has to put herself into all kinds of unsafe situations in the outside world. We can understand this from the following argument. If it were put to a writer that he could serve humanity better by stepping out of his study and jumping into the boxing ring, he would surely