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Thursday, March 10, 2005
Editorial: Ascendant womanhood
Featured on the front page of a national daily the other day was the story and photo of four women cadets who are in the top 10 of this year’s Philippine Military Academy graduating class. Three of them achieved cum laude honors.
What better proof is there to show that women are winning the long-drawn struggle for gender equality?
The women’s cause has practically permeated almost all facets of life in contemporary national society. It is, in fact, quite difficult these days to go through our waking hours without encountering proofs of feminine assertiveness.
This points to the rising consciousness of women not only of their rights but also of their roles in the developing dynamics of a fast modernizing world.
The current imbroglio over the health department’s “Ligtas Buntis” program with the Church is one instance that touches on women’s cause.
But on the issues over the right to life, there ought really to be no conflict since the objective of either the Church or the Government seems conjoined--that of the protection and preservation of life.
The two forces differ only in the manner and means of attaining the common goal.
Yet, the focal center—the women—appears divided.
Various women-oriented organizations and/or foundations are not truly solidly aligned with the government’s advocacies concerning the multifarious problems women face in contemporary society.
But neither are they also openly supporting the Church’s religion-based stand in resisting government policies regarding motherhood and family.
Be that as it may, it is at this time of year that women have chosen to reassess their gains in their march toward recognition of their rights, and their assertion of gender equality, a circumstance they believe the male of the genus homo sapiens has long denied the female.
But there’s something tacitly admirable in the feminine gender, though, in their persistence and indefatigable determination to overcome “male prejudice.” Indeed, the overall picture of the gender conflict, if there ever is, appears to be illusory, to say the least.
The general impression on the male gender’s side, so some social scientists contend, is that we are subtly and unconsciously a matriarchal society, which notion the wives try hard to suppress.
There was the story of a wife who, in her effort to impress her husband of her true role in the family, brought him a letter-holder. On the ceramics ware was inscribed the following:
“I am the master of this house, whatever my wife says shall be done.”
(March 10, 2005 issue)
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