Recently read an article in Newspaper "I just can’t handle you". It was related to why men cant handle women today and does that mean they are not able to take their rising strength. But it also highlighted that women tend to underplay intelligence and "showing her weakness is where a woman’s greatest strength lies".
For all those men who are reading this blog, this is not a comparison with Men but a thought for all of us, so your opinions are well appreciated.
Women Intelligence should be unquestioned as we have seen our mothers, who don’t have any master’s degrees but they are our doctors, psychiatrist, teachers and above all best friends. They have given us the intelligence we have today and made us what we are. Further, they have incredible knowledge in handling budgets, articulation of thoughts, improvising moods based on the situation at home and many such arts which are difficult to elaborate in words.
This article also referenced that pass percentage of girls in CBSE exams is always higher than boys and over the years they would out number men in the professional domain.
So, the question is why women underplay intelligence?
Most talked about Movie, chak de!! which was all about women power had shown the problems which women have to face if they want to carve a niche for themselves. It showcased when they were to play against a men's team, they were not sure if they should play the match or not. Though they won the match finally but what was the reason for initial inhibition.
Some opinions from men:
"We know this was what used to be there in the past, people were brought up in that way and the trend continued for long but is slowly but surely fading at least in big cities and among educated people, though it takes time to let go old trends. Men have their ego and women can adjust better and women are expected to compromise more than men because they are more capable of doing so"
"Women are neither dumb nor underplay intelligence but vacillate quite a bit or so has been my experience"
Though there would be other thoughts but appears that men appreciate the role of women and are aware of their intelligence, then what is that which makes them hesitant?
Some facts, as seen in India are if they act intelligent & compete they are thought to be aggressive and if they underplay they are well accepted, so they prefer to keep quite than exhibit their thoughts.
Similar experiences have been faced by women in the professional world. If a woman is performing well in a role, people start linking her to bad character while she was actually at her intelligent best. So, women get confused that what level of intelligence should be exhibited so that they are well accepted.
This article also referenced that pass percentage of girls in CBSE exams is always higher than boys and over the years they would out number men in the professional domain.
So, the question is why women underplay intelligence?
Most talked about Movie, chak de!! which was all about women power had shown the problems which women have to face if they want to carve a niche for themselves. It showcased when they were to play against a men's team, they were not sure if they should play the match or not. Though they won the match finally but what was the reason for initial inhibition.
Some opinions from men:
"We know this was what used to be there in the past, people were brought up in that way and the trend continued for long but is slowly but surely fading at least in big cities and among educated people, though it takes time to let go old trends. Men have their ego and women can adjust better and women are expected to compromise more than men because they are more capable of doing so"
"Women are neither dumb nor underplay intelligence but vacillate quite a bit or so has been my experience"
Though there would be other thoughts but appears that men appreciate the role of women and are aware of their intelligence, then what is that which makes them hesitant?
Some facts, as seen in India are if they act intelligent & compete they are thought to be aggressive and if they underplay they are well accepted, so they prefer to keep quite than exhibit their thoughts.
Similar experiences have been faced by women in the professional world. If a woman is performing well in a role, people start linking her to bad character while she was actually at her intelligent best. So, women get confused that what level of intelligence should be exhibited so that they are well accepted.
So, is acceptance the only reason or many more...please comment.
1 comment:
In mah opinion on this.. i can just pick one line from ur writing only n say it all
"showing her weakness is where a woman’s greatest strength lies"
and this is the thing that all women tend to use whenever they wish to move ahead..!!
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