First Edition, March 2025
Commonwealth Teachers Group (CTG)
“Women empowerment is being respected highly in Sri Lanka. Female suffrage is in force in New Zealand since 1856. The Asia Pacific countries like Japan, Indonesia and Thailand have been enjoyingthe bliss of women empowerment. “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back”, rightly says Malala Yousafzai. It is very flattering to note that one third seats in the election contests in India are now reserved for women. In the Indian states like Rajasthan, Odisha and West Bengal, the enrolment of girls in schools, colleges and university has substantially increased to drive the point home that girls are excelling in education too. In the Madhyamik Pariksha or equivalent and the Higher Secondary Examinations or equivalent, female-examinees are more in number than their male counterparts, particularly in 2025 in West Bengal. Women today no longer lag behind men. They are rather worthier and very often much better competitors than men. Let the voice of women be:
“You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.” ( from the poem “Still I Rise” of Maya Angelou)
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