I feel proud to share with my readers the fact that I feel blessed in having been born a girl, and that too in my school where the number of Goddesses is greater than that of Gods. The Goddesses are worshiped more! Yes. Women constitute half of humanity and probably the better half. In the absence of gender equality, humanity is depriving itself of a substantial strength from fifty percent of its constituents. It has been the case almost from the beginnings of civilized society that women were cast in specifically discriminatory roles and thus have never been empowered to contribute their best to the advancement of the society. This article takes a look at how modification of traditional roles, particularly through education, can impact on gender equality and more emphatic participation of women in the affairs of mankind. Nature has empowered women by presenting them with the greatest gift of procreation, along with others like nurture, tolerance and above all super sensitivity. It is for humanity to take advantage of these strengths of women for its betterment as a whole. It is believed, and probably rightly so, that a woman is her own biggest enemy because she fails to realize her inner strengths and weaknesses when her super sensitivity overpowers her.
