Five Ways Strong Women Support Gender Equality
Women who are strong in themselves seek gender equality for everyone. They can accomplish this in a variety of ways in their daily lives. There are significant and established gender differences. Practically every aspect of a woman’s life is impacted by gender inequity.
In order to ensure sustainable development and economic advancement, it is essential to ensure that women and girls do not suffer gender impediments to high-quality education, healthcare, opportunities for employment, political representation, and an on-ramp into the decision making apparatus of the global economic community.
If you’re a woman who wants to apply your successful empowerment to support other women in achieving equality, think about implementing the following tactics into your daily routine.
Method 1: Honor and encourage other women.
Celebrate other women you know when they accomplish great things or do something fantastic. Honor the accomplishments of other women. Women empower one another when they encourage and congratulate one another. Women who are strong and confident in themselves feel confident to handle everything life throws at them.
Method 2: Take on the role of a girl or young woman’s mentor.
Mentoring a young girl or woman is a wonderful method for powerful women to support gender equality. You can be a role model of an empowered woman in the world. You will achieve this when you encourage and assist girls and young women.
Provide her a kind of blue print, Fill it with instances she may use to emulate your behaviors and attitudes through your example. Use your position of influence to make a young lady feel more confident and capable. You have a lot of ability to shape their attitude about themselves while you are mentoring them.
Method 3: Support local businesses and projects that are operated or owned by women.
Women that are strong take action to help other women. Which companies and businesses in your neighborhood are owned or run by women, for example? Consider contacting a woman-owned or led business instead of going to your typical location the next time you need a specific good or service.
You might be surprised at how many businesses led by women exist in your neighborhood. Women lead and own a variety of business types. Think twice before going to the mechanic, farmer’s market, or home supply store, for instance. You may discover an alternative that is run or owned by women and discover your new favorite store.
Method 4: Recognize your own gender biases and attempt to change or eradicate them.
Narratives and gender norms have a significant role in our culture as a whole. Some have become so embedded in our minds that we fail to recognize how our presumptions about other individuals are based on what society deems “normal.”
Many gender expectations and roles don’t apply to everyone in the world. For instance, many men are stay-at-home dads and care for their children fulltime. Their female partners fulfill the role of holding down a regular job. Many women are not interested in starting families or having children. The list goes on and on!
People should be encouraged to pursue their goals in life, rather than being encouraged to conform to cultural norms or expectations. Learn how to alter and dispute some of these universal truths or norms you’ve been conditioned to accept. That is a terrific method to promote gender equality.
Method 5: Encourage the women in your life to accept praise.
Your circle of female friends should be conditioned to embrace praises. Accepting praise and recognition is a wonderful approach to support gender equality every day. Encourage the women in your circle to take compliments as reality rather than trying to apologize or dispute them.
It’s a negative habit that some women have to try to “explain away” why they should not feel happy or proud of anything. To feel more empowered, encourage them to accept their praise and take encouraging comments to heart.
Madeline Albright : A True Role Model for the World
Madeline Albright served as United States Secretary of State, after serving as President Clinton’s Ambassador to the United Nations. This what she said about her arrival at the UN in 1993, as printed in MsMagazine. com (click here for the article; it’s a dandy).
Secretary Madeleine Albright on Her Legacy as a Women’s Rights Champion: ‘I Decided I Would Make Women’s Issues Central to American Foreign Policy’
When I got to the U.N., which was in February 1993, I asked my assistant to invite the other women ambassadors [to lunch]. At that time there were 183 countries in the UN. But then I get to my apartment and they’re only six other women there: Canada, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Liechtenstein.
And me being the American, I decided I had to form a caucus; we called ourselves the G7. And what we did was to lobby on behalf of women’s issues—to make sure that rape was seen as a weapon of war, for example. There was a new war crimes tribunal that had been put together to deal with issues in the former Yugoslavia, and we were there to make sure there were women judges.
Also, constantly [at the U.N.], I would talk about the importance of having a larger agenda for how to deal with women’s issues internationally.
I end this article with the quote from Secretary Albright. Not only was she a champion of womens’ rights, but was accepted in the male dominated world of international politics. She was seen as a tough negotiator that never backed down . Albright never missed a chance to share what she thought was right for women. How about we all summon our ‘inner Albright’ and continue her legacy!