Friday, March 28, 2008

Celebrating Being A Woman

As we celebrate the month of March for us women, I believe that the time has come for our women’s instinct that is calling to promote our basic essence that strikes for holistic betterment from within that is not just to prepare us in seeking for a higher career status to be dominant in any field but to put an essential meaning being a woman they all loved. We seldom see unsuccessful women in their respective fields but a global mindset is saying that a whopping (or huge) 84 percent of women based in the countries India, Thailand, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and U.S. who participated in UK-based firm Salt Communications that conducted a survey for women who are hesitant to take center stage that makes them procrastinate or put off to take hold of opportunities because they too didn’t have the confidence and this is a global condition in women including the Philippines. I’ve heard of this condition in women not long ago but I guess this applies to masculine too, but it is just more pronounced with women who just recently showed amazing recognitions of supremacy based on history which used to be known as submissive who only take care of the house chores. Last March 15, 2008, I’ve read such condition in the Lifestyle section of Philippine Star about a similar survey conducted by Bridges last January of the same year and the said survey revealed that 4 out of every 5 Pinays (Filipino women) admit to letting go of their dreams. It also said in the survey that young women would rather procrastinate or put off than pursue their dreams to become as expected career woman because of lack of confidence. Is it? I just would like to raise a question, but I’d rather call it turning the priority into something noble actions than lacking of confidence to achieve what is often wanted regarding career opportunity and these uncounted women dreamers became doers of astonishing passions in their respective fields other than opportunities that are related to corporate world as achievement.

I cannot just associate the result of the said survey to the whole concept of young and not so young women achievers who succeeded in other perspective of success. It is said in the survey: “overall, the study suggest that while Filipino women in their 20s believe that their current situations can be better, more than half of the 350 women who responded in the survey cannot take the steps necessary for the improvement because of lack of confidence.” They believe that their situations can be better and yet they don’t have the confidence? Reading between the verb “believe” and the noun “confidence” are two coherent words with each other and open for an argument. How can one believe without confidence? The two words are contradicting as they used but harmonious in a sense, and this statement proves that women are known holders of success if they want to. I want to believe that the survey’s result is depending on those women’s family background, social status and educational attainment where somehow they built their confidence that has the big factor for achieving their goals but believing is aligned to a better situation where confidence comes in easily. Setting aside the implied rivalry between the two sexes, I believe that we women have more than what it takes to be successful in any kind for being emotionally “non-technical” in all aspects of life than men. But we women are not out of the ordinary, we’re just women who are in love with what we are doing and that’s why we’re easy to be loved with or without the titles next to our names.

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