The parents should provide equal opportunities and rights to the girls as they give to their boys
Nadia Brohi
The world is moving so fast day by day and people are just trying to discover the each and everything of the universe. And in all this developmental process where the men are struggling, women are also trying their best to move by shoulder to shoulder with men and serve in the society equally as men and become the reason of the progress of their society and country.
If we try to search out, we can find a lot of girls in our society born with thousands of dreams in their eyes and hearts, and who work hard for the sake of those dreams. They want to make their distinct and prominent identity in the society, who want to serve their people; who want to make their presence beneficial for the nation. Even some girls want to help their fathers, brothers and their husband. They want to be the greater supporter for them instead of being dependent for everything. We can find this type of passions in so many girls in every sphere of life in the country.
But apart from this still in this modern world there are some places where people are still too much backward in their thoughts concerning the girls; still people are following old traditions and rituals; they are bond to all the old applied rules which they had seen in their ancestors. I just can’t understand why the people don’t try to understand the generation gap? Why they don’t accept the facts? Why the think that they are right in all ways? Why they even don’t want to think a little bit about other’s opinions? Why still people are making girls the matter of their respect? Why still people think that if any of the girl of their family tries to get education and if she tries to be successful and to do something different or to make her own identity in the world, their respect will suffer? Why they feel themselves ashamed by allowing their girls for jobs? Yes it is a fact that still at different places of our country we find this type of people.
We will bring the change, by raising voices against the violation and by asking the rights that our religion has given us.
Not only this, the parents do not only hinder all the opportunities from them, they impose even their own thoughts and decision on them in the most important matter of their lives which is their marriage. Firstly the people think that marriage is the only thing a girl should do when she gets little bit mature, no matter how the boy is, and is he worthy or responsible for their daughter. They just impose their decisions by making it the matter of their honor and ego. We should ask those parents ‘where their ego and honor goes when their girl gets abused by the person she is forced to marry? When their girl is treated like animal in that home where they sent them, doesn’t their respect and ego get hurt at that time? What if the person they choose for her appears an unworthy person what if he appears not to be this much able to fulfill the basic necessities of food and other things to their girl? What can that girl do who does not have education, any type of skill or knowledge? How can she survive? Do we ever think of this?
Do we think that still we are in darkness? Still today in this era when people come out on the streets for justice, thousands of girls are oppressed.
If we take few minutes and think about those girls who burry all their dreams and desires in their hearts forever and live their lives as a silent slave can we do something for them? How can the change will come? Who will bring the change?
We will bring the change, by raising voices against the violation and by asking the rights that our religion has given us.
It’s our time and we have to change the mindset of our elders that each individual is different and all have separate goals and opinions and they should accept it. Elders should also give respect to the younger’s decision’s like the Youngers do.
The parents and the guardians should understand the feelings and decisions of each child equally without any gender discrimination and without including their own personal preferences, they should provide equal opportunities and rights to the girls as they give to their boys. Let them equally fly and touch the sky.
Let them explore the world.
Also read: Pakistan’s financial gender gap aggravates chronic poverty
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Nadia Brohi is undergraduate student at English Department, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Shaheed Benazirabad (Nawabshah) Sindh
