So it seems…
MEN have royally messed up everything…Iraq, Afghanistan, the media world and so on. It is time MEN took a backseat and let WOMEN be in the driver’s seat.
If I was an American I would vote for any WOMAN candidate belonging to any party in the next elections!!!
And the WOMEN POWER is surely emerging! In the classes where I teach journalism in India the ratio between young men and women is nearly 30:70.
Now we have news from the UK where it is the same story. WOMEN university students now outnumber MEN across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences in Britain, says The Times.
“New figures from Universities UK showing that 57 per cent of all students are women demonstrate the remarkable progress that girls and women have made in the education system since campaigners against female entry to universities in the late 19th century argued that the ‘overeducation’ of women could lead to sterility, brain damage and nervous collapse.
“The figures raise serious concerns that many boys and young men are being left behind by an education system that plays to the strengths of girls and undervalues the achievements of boys.
“Mr Geoffrey Crossick, chairman of Universities UK, the umbrella body for universities, said that the dominance of women students was gradually changing the university environment, probably for the better. ‘It has toned down the macho culture in some subjects,’ he said.
“And Jenny Watson, chairwoman of the Equal Opportunities Commission, noted that, once they had left university, women graduates still lagged behind men in the the pay stakes.
” ‘We must remember that, while girls are forging ahead at school, they are still falling behind in the workplace and continue to suffer a 17 per cent pay gap,’ she said.
“The report also recorded a big increase in the numbers of students living at home with their parents, from 12 to 20 per cent in the past ten years.”
In many parts of India where there was matriarchal rule, and the remnants of it can still be seen, there is a belief that WOMEN POWER was lost centuries ago because of the fatal abberation and increased tyranny of women. Those societies, it has been observed, where once women were in power, are more civilized.
However, in the recent centuries we have seen the rising tyranny of men…This and other serious aberrations in men may result in their gradually passing on the baton to women…and possibly back to matriarchal rule.
It is the cyclical order of things in the NATURE, you know!!! So be prepared macho men in this world! Don’t say that I had not warned you!
Women should be extremely grateful to men like George Bush, Osama bin Laden and so on for expediting the return of the WOMEN POWER.
Swaraaj Chauhan describes his two-decade-long stint as a full-time journalist as eventful, purposeful, and full of joy and excitement. In 1993 he could foresee a different work culture appearing on the horizon, and decided to devote full time to teaching journalism (also, partly, with a desire to give back to the community from where he had enriched himself so much.)
Alongside, he worked for about a year in 1993 for the US State Department’s SPAN magazine, a nearly five-decade-old art and culture monthly magazine promoting US-India relations. It gave him an excellent opportunity to learn about things American, plus the pleasure of playing tennis in the lavish American embassy compound in the heart of New Delhi.
In !995 he joined WWF-India as a full-time media and environment education consultant and worked there for five years travelling a great deal, including to Husum in Germany as a part of the international team to formulate WWF’s Eco-tourism policy.
He taught journalism to honors students in a college affiliated to the University of Delhi, as also at the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication where he lectured on “Development Journalism” to mid-career journalists/Information officers from the SAARC, African, East European and Latin American countries, for eight years.
In 2004 the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) selected him as a Trainer/Mentor for India under a European Union project. In 2008/09 He completed another European Union-funded project for the BBC WST related to Disaster Management and media coverage in two eastern States in India — West Bengal and Orissa.
Last year, he spent a couple of months in Australia and enjoyed trekking, and also taught for a while at the University of South Australia.
Recently, he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Studies at Chitkara University in Chandigarh, a beautiful city in North India designed by the famous Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students there.
He loves trekking, especially in the hills, and never misses an opportunity to play a game of tennis. The Western and Indian classical music are always within his reach for instant relaxation.
And last, but not least, is his firm belief in the power of the positive thought to heal oneself and others.