Women’s day is celebrated every year on the 8th of March to honor all the women who have excelled in their fields and set an example for others to achieve new horizons.
Women in our lives contribute tremendously to enriching every moment with laughter, affection, care, and inspiration today and every day. LPU sees this day as a reminder to celebrate the important roles that women play in our society and to question both bias and injustices. We believe in developing stronger leaders to make the planet a better place.
Yesterday, LPU faculty and staff members participated in Punjab’s Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh led International Women’s Day 2021 Celebrations through a state level video conferencing facility provided to LPU from Punjab Bhawan Chandigarh. Observing COVID-19 restrictions, state-level celebration was held at the spacious Shanti Devi Mittal Auditorium of the University.
Embracing the grandeur of International Women’s Day 2021 with leading and empowering women from India and abroad, LPU welcomed outstanding personalities like Ms. Suja Warrier, Ms. Meenal Dhiman, and Ms. Ritu Ghosh to engage LIVE with the students. The session themed, “Inspire. Empower. Connect” provided Vertos with the opportunity to create awareness in public.
All the speakers throughout the LIVE session collectively focused on the following key aspects about women in our country.
- Most of us live in a world where we have basic civil rights and surprisingly, we live in a world where some women don’t have them. This is a problem, but the main issue is the women are unable to make it to the top of their professions, a lot more hurdles than men face.
- Of the people in the parliament of 193 countries, only 13% of them are woman, in the corporate sector only 15 to 16% of women make it to the top positions, these figures are pretty low considering 49.6% of all population in the world are women, and what makes it even worse, is that the figures are going down & they are moving in the wrong direction.
- Women face a much harder choice between professional success and personal fulfillment when compared to men.
So, the question is how are we gonna fix this?
The answer to this is really simple! Keep the women in the workforce, and this will give them a sense of liberation and a sense of openness they have been seeking for. Even though programs by corporate, governments, NGOs are necessary to encourage women, keeping women in the workforce is the key.
In many tests where questions were asked in totally objective criteria, it has been seen that women systematically underestimate their abilities, due to which, there is a huge disparity between the male-female dropout rates. So, as a society, it’s our responsibility that we tell our daughters, our colleagues, and ourselves that we need to believe in women; we have to get them sit at the tables and join the workforce.
So, concludingly the speakers suggested that the current generation just can’t change the numbers at the top because we won’t be able to get 50% of the general population working. But I truly believe the future generations can, and we can foresee women achieving new horizons. A world where 50% of the industries, governments are run by women would be a better world!
