Women's health is not a niche issue - it impacts everyone in some way. That is why a collective effort to improve awareness and understanding of menstrual hygiene is key to closing the gender health gap.
Shabana AzmiRead
In a patriarchal society like ours, women have to fight hard for a seat at the table. Boys are privileged over girls from birth. Equal opportunity and access for both girls and boys must become the norm.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Women often struggle for recognition and opportunities in a society that favors men. It's essential for both genders to have equal access to opportunities.
The quote by Shabana Azmi highlights the struggles that women face in a patriarchal society where they must work harder than their male counterparts to gain recognition and opportunities. It emphasizes the need for a societal shift towards equal access and opportunities for both girls and boys, advocating for a norm where privilege based on gender is eliminated, and equality is promoted from birth.
Themes
EqualityGenderOpportunitySocietyWomenPrivilege
In practice
Example use cases
During a panel discussion on gender roles, this quote can serve as a powerful reminder of the challenges women face.
More from Shabana Azmi
All quotes →I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.
Shabana AzmiRead
We never had money but it was never a problem. The spirit of comradeship, the commitment to gender equality, social justice and a celebration of pluralism and India's composite culture provided the glue that kept us joyous and closely bonded.
Shabana AzmiRead
My being Muslim is only one part of my identity. But particularly in India and the world over, a concerted effort is being made to diminish all other aspects of identity and only take your religious identity as who you are.
Shabana AzmiRead
It is accepted the world over that women are an essential part of what makes a society successful, and only through supporting and empowering women can a country truly be strong.
Shabana AzmiRead
It seems kosher and OK to treat women as objects because the business of cinema is about images and when you have fragmented images of a woman's bosom and her swiveling hip and her twisting navel, it robs the woman of all autonomy and subjects her to the male gaze.
Shabana AzmiRead
Similar quotes
Those who are so eager for women and girls to go back to the kitchen might think again about just what it is we might be up to in there. You can plan a lot of damage from a kitchen. It’s also where the knives are kept.
Laurie PennyRead
It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.
Arianna HuffingtonRead
Research shows that women at that mid level tend to get promoted based on performance, and men tend to get promoted based on potential.
Beth BrookeRead
Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.
Robert OwenRead
Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful, but women who display these same traits often pay a social penalty. Female accomplishments come at a cost.
Sheryl SandbergRead
Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.
Emma WatsonRead