Women; ''Speaking the same language of silence''

Hello everyone,,,
These are the words of a young Pakistani girl Anasuya...

Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language
of silence...
we seek only to give words
to those who cannot speak
(too many women
in too many countries)
I seek only to forget the sorrows
of my grandmothers' silence.

A lot of people may ask ''why are you so interested in politics, world order and so many things girls your age ain't interested in....I would answer them any day, anytime ''I choose not to be passive in a world were so much has been done to create female emancipation''.

The Chinese have an ancient saying, that women hold up half the sky, but in most of the world its really more than a half. Women handle a large share of the responsibility for the welfare of their families-Hillary Clinton.

Please''Don't say, oh, female discrimination is over, its long gone. Those were the problems my great-grandmothers faced. Do not even say ''I am no longer oppressed because am the managing director of my company or my husband cooks and laundry's..its now practically shared responsibility..Do not even say ''I am a female preacher, I stand were men haven threaded; no need women are taking over''. It being over for you does not mean its over. The war is still in progress. These inequities are starkly visible in South Asia, where more than half a billion people live in grinding poverty- the majority of them being women and children. Poor women and girls are oppressed and discriminated against, denied and medical care, victimized by culturally sanctioned violence.

What about Wahhabism ''It is an ultra conservative Saudi brand of Islam. that is gaining adherents around the world. It troubles me because it is a fast-spreading form of Islamic fundamentalism that excludes women from full participation in their societies and promotes religious intolerance. It also advocates terror and violence. So, how can you say the war is over, when it has barely begun.

Its more than getting married, having a good job and living happily ever after. Its got to be about service, being serviceable. A woman called Liz Moynihan founded the self-employed women's association (SEWA) in 1971. Both a trade union and a women's movement. SEWA claimed over a hundred and forty thousand members including some of the poorest least educated and most shunned women in India. It offered small loans to enable them earn their own income and also provided basic literacy and business education training.

I conclude by saying,, I would not be passive in the face of oppression against my gender because of the self-sacrifice of the women in times past who fought with everything they may have had.