Don’t subject women legislators to patriarchal gaze
Source: The New Indian Express
Women have to ‘work twice as hard to get half as far’ as their male counterparts. A woman professional, for instance, has to prove that she is as competent, reliable and talented as her male colleague. This is leaving aside the disproportionate burden of housework, child and elder care many women tackle in their private lives. She must accomplish all of this while never seeming too authoritative, too threatening, too aloof, too familiar, angry, frustrated or impatient because her hold on success is precarious. She may get ahead as long as she complies with a pattern of femininity that is acceptable in a patriarchal society. After all, failure for her, unlike success, comes twice as easily for half the mistakes.
Click here to read the full article published by The New Indian Express on 6 November 2023.
Women have to ‘work twice as hard to get half as far’ as their male counterparts. A woman professional, for instance, has to prove that she is as competent, reliable and talented as her male colleague. This is leaving aside the disproportionate burden of housework, child and elder care many women tackle in their private lives. She must accomplish all of this while never seeming too authoritative, too threatening, too aloof, too familiar, angry, frustrated or impatient because her hold on success is precarious. She may get ahead as long as she complies with a pattern of femininity that is acceptable in a patriarchal society. After all, failure for her, unlike success, comes twice as easily for half the mistakes.
Click here to read the full article published by The New Indian Express on 6 November 2023.