Rightful place for women in this world....

 I was recently reading a wonderful essay by Anne-Marie Slaughter and Xanthe Schraff titled “Peace building in the Middle East requires women”. They state the reasons as to how and why women make the best peacemakers and how the Biden Administration has further empowered women in playing crucial roles in peacemaking efforts. 

 
We have seen women become efficient world leaders by thinking for themselves and living life on their own terms. With so much war and conflicts across  the globe America is now poised to choose a woman as its President. The timing is perfect because women tend to show more compassion and diligence without any prompting. 

 

 A woman who takes upon herself the responsibility of children who are not biologically hers tends to be more supportive of them without expecting anything out of them in reciprocity. All that the woman wants is to see them do well in their lives. As for her own children, she may find it difficult to let go of them, since there is a modicum of selfishness when she expects them to  provide emotional  sustenance as she grows old. 

 

Just as it hurts to hear a prominent politician shaming women by calling them “childless democrats”, it is equally hurting to say that a woman is only a stepmother. It takes a great deal of magnanimity to take on the responsibility of her husband’s children without having one of her own. One must talk to those children who accept another woman as a substitute for  biological mother to run their day to day lives and help them to grow as good individuals and try  to understand how a woman thinks when she decides for them while they are still young and how her decisions have benefited them in the long run. 

 

Women are intuitively kind and tough, astute, aggressive and bereft of ego when they need to decide issues involving larger good. Geopolitics needs more women for global peace. Let America give woman a chance, which they missed earlier by not electing Hillary Clinton. Let some peace descend upon earth, let children not suffer from starvation and death. World is giving up on an entire generation of children be it in Africa or Gaza that can have unfathomable consequences in the future. With women, there is no going back on doing what is right for everyone.