After the Suffrage movement in 1890s, one thought that emancipation of women will be incessant and there shall be no looking back. Today, in 2008, again a woman feels the need to revolt, to fight for her right and to get rid of the step-mother treatment that this world never fails to give her. She is a modern suffragete, the one who is fighting for equality and who, with sheer belief in herself, shall shatter the glass ceiling that exists everywhere. The glass ceiling that the two women namely Ann Robinson and Rita Pullen wrote so passionately about in the Guardian, UK.

They are not core-feminists or bra-burners, but they resent not having an egalitarian society where a boss can scowl at you for not pouring tea or a woman’s inability to sign a legal document for renting a television!

Ann Robinson particularly holds women responsible for their own plight for the ones who succeed see the gender battle as won, but they do not realize that they need to fight for women as a whole and it is not an individual fight! Rita Pullen, on the other hand, brought to notice the difference between girlification and pornification. She also made us realize that there is no need to take pride in the fact that you are educating girls for it is no favour, it is simply what they deserve.
This discussion reminds me of the classic John Lenon song, Woman is the nigger of the world, I wonder, when will she stop being that?

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Via: guardian221816