TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF WOMEN’S STUDIES

Women studies are also refereed as a gender studies or feminist studies, which is based on study of how inter sectionality of gender, race, age, class, nationality, ethnicity, ability, sexuality, and other differences of the human life which have an impact on almost every aspects of the social, political, and cultural experience.

The base of women studies was laid in the student, civil rights, and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s. the discipline also gives explanation about how a particular gender not only influences our culture and private life but it also impacts on our laws and social policies in order to create and sustain better and non-violent environment in the country.

Women studies also highlights our historical and contemporary context like nation building, globalization, economic developments, and the legal system thus making it a vital and most important discipline to visualize better and more sustainable and growing world towards peace.

As far as sexual inequality is concerns, women studies is the powerful way to tackle and spread awareness about issues like sexual inequalities, race, class, and ethnicity women empowerment and feminist movements which helps to revise and alter the way we see our self and our world. As we all know that women studies are a completely new phenomenon which makes it’s as an interdisciplinary study.  

Women studies not only helps to improve the potentials of women and to have awareness of the sexual equality but it also helps each and every individual to see the world in a different way and work in way that not even single talent of any human irrespective of their sex go waste. The world has set enough examples of women who have proved them self to the world. And the process continues as we are a developing country so the bigger changes are yet to come….

On one hand there are still many negative aspects and experience which are still face by a woman. On a personal not, I have my personal experience to share, where in 2018 when I was doing my internship at mobile crèches which is an Indian NGO founded to address a wide spread lack of access education and health care that children face on construction site. During that time, I have noticed that women who work from 8 to 12 hours a day were paid less salary as compared to male workers for who work limited hours as compare to female workers. And I felt that this injustice is still face by women in our country.

On the other hand, there is a village in Tamil Nadu called Thennamadevi village, where the village run by a bunch of 50 teenage girls who are responsible for every civic, educational and infrastructure project undertaken in the village. Frustrated by the many do-nothing men who seemed more interested in alcohol than in improving village life, the girls organized themselves in 2017 into a club that transformed Thennamadevi into the best community in their district. ⁠

And their efforts paid off. In less than two years, the girls have done everything from creating a village library and lighting up streets to ensuring sanitary napkins are distributed to every woman. ⁠ ⁠

There are n numbers of examples which proves that women studies have made revolutionary changes in the life of every human being.