Aiming towards a Transformational Agenda with Gendered Lenses

Abstract

There is growing recognition that we are actually reaching the tipping point where irreversible damage is going to be done on the world’s social fabric if we do not all together go towards an urgent call for action. This will be made possible if only a great political will exists to make the world a better place. Discussions revolving around maternal health, access to quality education, reproductive well being, access to basic needs should be taken on board. We need to empower our women, being the very essence of the private sphere so that they can fight to provide what matters to their children. Normally, the female sex is over represented among the least privileged groups but it is very much under represented within policy-making arenas. In this respect, women need to join hands and challenge power relations through the formation of movements. These movements are legendary in promoting gender equality and oppose the perpetuation of gender discrimination in economic, political, legal, and social structures. They can then be involved in the political sphere to further challenge the embeddedness of patriarchy and work towards a transformational agenda through an equitable social order. Meanwhile it needs to be politics of ideas as opposed to politics of numbers. Then only will patriarchal entrenchments be questioned and the world be rescued from the poverty trap.