Recently my organization has celebrated Women’s Day by
arranging a forum and engaging the entire female personnel to share their
thoughts and ideas towards the role of women in the corporate and personal
levels. I was part of this gathering as a speaker and audience of multiple
females who are working at the managerial and non-managerial levels. We got an
opportunity to express our views and beliefs towards the amelioration of women’s
role in the society as a whole. I am going to share the thoughts of couple of
my female colleagues. Their views were so strong and attention grabbing that I just
couldn’t defy myself to write a blog on those splendid ideas.
One of my fellow colleagues, who is working at the managerial
level and I personally consider her one of the few exceptionally professional
and head strong women that I have met in
my life thus far. She commenced her speech in a very confident manner and
shared her experience of working with the men for the last 5+ years. She said
in order to be confident from inside and persuasive in your opinion, you should
keep yourself collected and always be prepared. She emphasized on investing an
ample amount of time in homework before you present an idea before your fellow
colleagues particularly men. As per her experience, she has seen many male
colleagues who always try to make you feel down and discouraged by striking you
with the complex questions and in this way impair your confidence. I believe
she was so right! A good preparation is the key to successful and confident execution.
Another lady added her viewpoints by sharing her own story
when her father was going through the last stages of cancer. She and her family
were able to feel his pain. In such a harsh time she didn’t let the
circumstances affect her work quality. Whenever she left home for work, she
always left the catastrophe at home and put a genuine smile on her face and valor
to achieve more and more at work. What was the result? Her employer honored her
with an extra ordinary performance award for the strength and confidence she
showed and the she fought with the hardship of her life. She also raised a very
interesting point, she emphasized on the seriousness level of females towards
work and professionalism. She added that she has come across many females who
work on temporary basis just for fun and leave the employer without delivering
the quality of work expected and also leave the bad impression on the employers
which create problems for rest of the females as well, who are actually serious
towards their career. I would actually agree with this point, it is very
important for those people regardless of the gender, if they actually want to
pursue with the job or not, they should be very clear towards the objectives of
their lives. Also, it is important for the employer to be able to recognize the
right talent for their organization by implementing a proper and strong
recruitment strategy.
Personally, I firmly believe that the female should get this
thought eradicated from their mind that they are in any way different from the
opposite gender in terms of achieving their goals. If they really want to have
equal rights then they should get this straight in their mind that they are
equal to men. I urge all my female fellows that stop thinking in a way that
present you as a different species in the society. If you want equality then
first you, yourself, consider yourself equal. You will be able to see the
impact by default. Sometimes as a female, we start thinking to get extra favors
from our employers for instance; saying no to late sittings in the offices
because you’re a female, saying no to travel as per your work requirements
because you’re a female, saying no to a lot of opportunities considering them as
challenges because you’re a female. If you do so, it is very obvious that you
will not be able to bring yourself equal to men. I do agree that a female has to
confront a lot of different issues as compare to a man in this society, but
again, we have the examples in front of us. All we need to do is to first start
working on our thought process. Our thoughts will be reflected in our attitude
and our attitude will enlighten the society that yes, this specie is equally eligible
for all the opportunities just like men. Also, I would like to highlight the
role of organizations and institutions here. Females, if they are working
women, have to play the role of a professional along with role(s) of
mother/wife/daughter/sister. The organizations should facilitate them so that
the females can play their role(s) perfectly in all domains. My organization is
providing a lot of good opportunities and at the same time facilitating the
females employee to avail those opportunities. Nonetheless, there is a lot to
be done at the individual, organizational and nation level.
I hope the coming days will not be about the debate on
equality in rights of men and women rather it would be towards the betterment
of society by capitalizing on the intellect of individuals regardless of the
gender s/he has.
