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Historical context of women in politics, gender biases in politics, women's leadership styles and impact.

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Is America Finally Ready for a Female President?

This article was done in collaboration with Ms. Magazine and republished from a Fuller Project special edition newsletter on August 23, 2024. Subscribe here .

Eight years ago, Hillary Clinton made history as the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party. A proud feminist, she embraced the trailblazing nature of her campaign, portraying it as a quest to break the “highest, hardest glass ceiling.” But winning the popular vote still didn’t enable her to shatter the glass. A greater equality, the dream of generations of women, remained just that—a dream. Another woman would have to make it come true.

This week, in what might have been the waning days of her second term, Clinton declared in a full-throated speech at the Democratic National Convention, that “the future is here.” It is Kamala Harris, she said, who can smash that centuries-old ceiling once and for all.

Vice President Harris, a strong feminist in her own right, is running less as a female candidate than as a nominee who just happens to be a woman—and a woman of color, at that. Democrats, overwhelmingly jubilant at their Chicago nominating convention, told me that they think it’s a winning strategy. Times have changed since 2016, they said. 

It is true that Harris isn’t burdened by the baggage that Clinton carried, female-centric stereotypes that stuck to her like gum to a shoe, dating from her years as first lady, senator and secretary of state. Harris is something of a blank slate who is re-introducing herself to the American people in a way that, Democrats hope, they will find both positive and palatable.

Yes, palatable. Even in 2024, women candidates — like all women in positions of power — must come across as not only competent, right and smart, but as palatable. Another word for that is “ likable .” During Clinton’s campaign in 2016, many voters told pollsters and journalists (including this one) that they’d vote for a woman, “just not that woman.” It’s a common refrain that is being put to the test yet again.

Still, the obstacle of “running while female” might be ameliorated by some big things that have happened since Clinton sought the White House, convention delegates, pollsters and women’s advocates told me.

One is the presidency of Donald Trump.

Another is the Jan. 6 insurrection, Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the potential for history to repeat itself.

But perhaps the most powerful development is the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade, an unpopular decision that helped Democrats avert a predicted “red wave” in the 2022 midterm elections and led to successful state initiatives (with more ballot measures in the pipeline) to protect abortion rights.

While acknowledging that she is “still heartbroken” about Clinton’s loss, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told me in an interview that the country is in a different place now than it was eight years ago. In 2016, voters didn’t have a full understanding of “how awful” Trump was, she said. “We know now, and he’s even promised to be worse than he was before,” Pelosi said. “I don’t know that he keeps promises, but it’s scary. So I think that the reality of what the actual contrast is between the two candidates is much clearer now in terms of how damaging it is to our country.”

Additionally, Pelosi told me that Clinton—and even Pelosi herself, as the first and, to date, only female speaker, “paved the way” for Harris to win. “And when we do [win], she will be a great president. And it so happens, she’ll be a woman president, she’ll be a woman of color president, but she will be the best president,” Pelosi said. “That will be icing on the cake.”

As for abortion, Pelosi said succinctly: “It’s everything.”

Indeed, reproductive rights and, more specifically, the need to protect and restore them, were mentioned by the vast majority of convention speakers, from everyday Americans to former presidents and first ladies to celebrities. Women and men who live in states that have banned or restricted abortion access shared painful stories of near-death experiences when pregnancies became nonviable and women were denied the care they needed.

Oprah Winfrey called those who are telling about such travails “the new freedom fighters.” Gesturing to her body, Winfrey declared: “Because if you do not have autonomy over this, if you cannot control when and how you choose to bring your children into this world and how they are raised and supported, there is no American dream.”

That Trump nominated the three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe , that he brags that he is responsible for a decision he falsely says most Americans wanted, that the ruling could lead to further restrictions on reproductive rights, will be a major theme of the Harris campaign. 

Her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, noted that soon after the Court took away the right to choose in 2022, his state moved to protect abortion rights. In Minnesota, he said during his convention speech, “we respect our neighbors and the personal choices they make. And even if we wouldn’t make those same choices for ourselves, we’ve got a golden rule: Mind your own damn business.”

Clearly, Democrats have found their voice on abortion in a way that they hadn’t before. Polls explain why. In May, fully 85 percent of respondents told Gallup, a nonpartisan polling firm, that abortion should be legal in all or some circumstances. Only 12 percent said it should be illegal in all circumstances. That and other, similar polls also explain why abortion was not a hot topic at the Republican National Convention a few weeks ago.

Delegates to the Democratic convention were optimistic about their second female nominee, though it’s easy to be swept up by the excitement of a festive four-day event featuring the likes of Stevie Wonder, John Legend and Winfrey, not to mention such Democratic icons as the Obamas, the Clintons and a slew of up-and-comers.

“I think the country is absolutely ready for a woman president,” Anne Schaeffer, an Illinois lobbyist and former legislative assistant, told me. “This campaign offers a lot of inspiration and a lot of connection.”

“Are you feeling the energy?” asked Mary Fosse, a state representative from Everett, Wash., who was sporting a red, white and blue “Cowboy Kamala” sash and a cowboy hat in deference to Beyonce’s latest album, Cowboy Carter . “I have not felt this kind of energy and vigor in so many years. … Kamala Harris has this appeal to women and people who have diverse backgrounds. People see themselves in her.”

Alabama state Sen. Merika Coleman went to the convention hall in a sparkly red-and-blue hat with a silver star and a pin bearing a picture of Harris.

 “It’s amazing to be part of history,” said Coleman, chair of her state’s Legislative Black Caucus. “We had an amazing opportunity with Hillary Clinton…. Kamala Harris is one of the most qualified people ever to run for president of the United States. She just happens to be a woman. She just happens to be a Black woman. She just happens to be an Asian woman.”

The question now is whether Harris will be the first female president or just another woman to hit her head on the glass.

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Kamala Harris

On January 20, 2021, Kamala D. Harris became the first woman, the first African American woman, the first Indian-American, the first person of Asian-American descent, and the first graduate of an HBCU to be sworn in as the Vice President of the United States of America. As she said in her election acceptance speech, she “may be the first, but [she] will not be the last.” Kamala Harris has spent her life breaking glass ceilings.

Born on October 20, 1964 in Oakland, California, Harris is the daughter of immigrants. Her father was born in Jamaica and her mother was born in India. After her parents divorced, Harris and her younger sister Maya were raised by their mother, Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a single parent. Harris recalls she “had a stroller-eye view of the Civil Rights movement” as she went with her mother to marches. These early experiences inspired her to make it her life’s work to fight against injustice.

While growing up in Oakland, she was immersed in both Indian and African American culture. Her mother took Harris to spend time with her grandparents in India during the summer but also made sure her girls were connected to their African American roots. Harris noted in her autobiography, “My mother understood very well that she was raising two black daughters...She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident, proud black women."

After high school, Harris matriculated to Howard University, a HBCU in Washington, D.C. She then received her law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office. In 2003, Harris was elected as the District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco.

As a lawyer, Harris immediately began breaking glass ceilings. In 2010, Harris was elected as the first African American and first woman to serve as California's Attorney General. While Attorney General, she married lawyer Doug Emhoff and became stepmother to his two children. She proudly became “Momala” as well as Attorney General. In 2016, she was elected as a Senator for California, becoming only the second African American woman to ever be elected to the Senate in U.S. history. When speaking to The Washington Post in 2019, Harris spoke about how politicians should not have to fit into boxes because of the color of their skin or their background, saying, "My point was: I am who I am. I'm good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I'm fine with it."

While in the Senate, Harris served on two powerful committees: the Intelligence Committee and the Judiciary Committee. As the committees dealt with important issues—such as the investigation into Russian influence and meddling in the 2016 election and judicial appointments to the Supreme Court—Harris became known as a sharp, aggressive questioner who could unnerve opposing witnesses.

In 2019, Harris launched her campaign for President of the United States. While she did not win the Democratic primary, she proved that she was capable of taking on an even larger leadership role in the United States. Because of her commitment to fighting injustice, her eloquence, and capabilities for leadership and governance, President-Elect Joseph R. Biden chose Harris as his running mate. This pick made Harris the fourth woman on a major party's national ticket and the second African American on a presidential ticket.

On the evening of November 7, 2020, standing on an outdoor stage in Wilmington, Delaware, Harris—wearing a suit in suffrage white—spoke to a crowd of cheering Americans about the work women have done, and continue to do, in the United States. She said,

“When [my mother] came here from India at the age of 19, maybe she didn’t quite imagine this moment. But she believed so deeply in an America where a moment like this is possible. So, I’m thinking about her and about the generations of women — Black Women. Asian, White, Latina, and Native American women throughout our nation’s history who have paved the way for this moment tonight. Women who fought and sacrificed so much for equality, liberty, and justice for all, including the Black women, who are too often overlooked, but so often Prove that they are the backbone of our democracy.... But while I may be the first woman in this office, I won’t be the last. Because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.

And to the children of our country, regardless of your gender, our country has sent you a clear message: Dream with ambition, lead with conviction, and see yourself in a way that others might not see you, simply because they’ve never seen it before.”

Kamala Harris' legacy of breaking glass ceilings continues to this day. In July 2024, President Joe R. Biden announced he was not seeking reelection, and endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris as his pick for the next Democratic nominee. Harris quickly garnered the support of the Democratic party and was confirmed as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in August 2024. If elected, she would be the first woman and first person of Asian descent in the position, and only the second African American to hold the role.

Photo Credit:  Office of Senator Kamala Harris - https://www.harris.senate.gov/news#photos, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93232755

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Someday: the long fight for a female president

A short film about the women who claimed a place in American politics.

by Joss Fong

In 1788, Thomas Jefferson wrote that American women shouldn’t “wrinkle their foreheads with politics.” A century and a half later, when Hillary Clinton was born, that attitude still prevailed.

That year, 1947, the US had zero female senators, zero female governors. The Supreme Court, and the Oval Office of course, had only ever seen men. It was only really in the past 40 years that women learned they could lead and men learned they could be led by women.

That revolution in American culture is still ongoing, but the idea that women are naturally unfit for government is now so alien to younger generations that many feel uncomfortable even considering the gender of a political candidate. The realities, however, lag behind the attitudes. Women make up only about 20 percent of the US House and the US Senate, and about 25 percent of state government.

Before 2008, no woman had come close to being nominated for president on a major party ticket. Before 2016, no woman had come close to winning the presidency. But Hillary Clinton is not the only trailblazer on the long path toward someday breaking America’s 240-year, 58-election streak of male presidents.

Through the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, women in politics underwent the rocky process of teaching the country that they could be equally effective and competent leaders as men, a process that occurred in parallel at workplaces around the country. They dismantled stereotypes, named and condemned sexual harassment, and slowly erased the novelty of female decision-makers, at least at the legislative level. Their work is our inheritance.

To see how that process unfolded, watch the video at the top of this post or on our YouTube channel .

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3. Views of having a woman president

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• The ideal number of women and men in high elected positions
• Will there ever be as many women as men in high political offices?
• Traits people think help or hurt men and women running for office
• Views of how a candidate’s gender, race and ethnicity impact their chances of election
• How a woman president would compare with presidents who are men in handling several policy areas
• How a woman president would impact the world’s respect for the U.S.
• How important is it that the U.S. elects a woman president?
• Will there be a woman president in the near future?
• Acknowledgments
• The American Trends Panel survey methodology

The survey asked whether a woman president would be better, worse, or neither better nor worse than a man when it comes to several leadership traits.

For each trait asked about, majorities say that a woman president would be neither better nor worse or that the president’s gender doesn’t matter.

For those who do see a gender difference, larger shares say a woman president would be better than say she would be worse than a man.

Some 39% say a woman president would be better at working out compromises . A similar share (37%) say a woman would be better at maintaining a respectful tone in politics .

About a third say a woman president would be better than a man at being honest and ethical (34%) and standing up for what she believes in, despite political pressure (32%). Some 27% say a woman would be better at working well under pressure .

By 11 percentage points or more, women are more likely than men to say that a woman president would be somewhat or a lot better than a man at every leadership trait asked about.

There are particularly large differences between the shares of men and women who say a woman president would be better at working out compromises and working well under pressure .

Nearly half of women (47%) say a woman president would be better at working out compromises. A notably smaller share of men (30%) say the same. And women are twice as likely as men to say that a woman president would be a lot or somewhat better at working well under pressure (36% vs. 18%) .

By partisanship

Democrats and Democratic leaners are more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to say a woman president would do a lot or somewhat better than a man at each leadership trait. By 18 percentage points, Democrats are more likely to say a woman president would be better at working out compromises , maintaining a respectful tone in politics ,and being honest and ethical.

Even though greater shares of Democrats say a woman president would be better at these leadership traits, about one-in-five or more Republicans say a woman president would be better than a man at each of the traits asked about. These shares are larger than the shares of Republicans who say a woman would be worse than a man at most of these traits.

Gender differences among Republicans and Democrats

Within each party, women are more likely than men to say that a woman president would be a lot or somewhat better than a man at each leadership trait. Among Republicans, differences between men’s and women’s views are especially large when it comes to working out compromises (22% vs. 39%) and working well under pressure (12% vs. 29%) . There are also differences of 11 points or more in the shares of Democratic men and women who say a woman president would be better than a man at each of the traits we asked about .

On every leadership trait, Democratic women are more than twice as likely as Republican men to say that a woman president would be a lot or somewhat better than presidents who are men.

Similar shares of Republican women and Democratic men say a woman president would be better than a man at working out compromises and standing up for what she believes in, despite political pressure.

The only trait for which Republican women (29%) are more likely than Democratic men (24%) to say a woman would do better is working well under pressure.

Half or more of Americans say that, when it comes to handling education, health care, gun policy, economic issues, crime, and national security and defense, a woman president would be neither better nor worse than a man or that the president’s gender doesn’t matter.

Among those who do see a gender difference, more say a woman president would be better than say she would be worse than a man at handling most of these policy areas. This is especially the case when it comes to:

• Education: 46% of U.S. adults say that a woman would handle this somewhat or a lot better than presidents who are men; only 3% say a woman would do worse.
• Health care: 45% say a woman president would do better than a man in this area, while just 5% say a woman would do worse.

Women are more likely than men to say that a woman president would be a lot or somewhat better than a man at handling every key policy area by a difference of 10 percentage points or more.

When it comes to economic issues and to national security and defense, about twice the share of women as men say that a woman president would do better than a man.

Among both men and women, the policy areas with the largest shares saying a woman president would do better are education and health care.

In turn, the policy area with the smallest shares of both men and women saying a woman president would do better is national security and defense.

For each policy asked about, Democrats are more likely than Republicans to say that a woman president would do a lot or somewhat better than a man.

The difference is widest when it comes to gun policy . Democrats are about three and a half times more likely than Republicans to say a woman president would do better in this area (44% vs. 12%) .

Among both Republicans and Democrats, women are more likely than men to say that a woman president would do better in all the policy areas asked about.

The survey asked how having a woman as president would impact how the rest of the world sees the United States.

A majority say that having a woman as president would make the U.S. neither more nor less respected or that the president’s gender wouldn’t have an impact (54%). 

About one-in-five Americans (22%) say a woman president would make the U.S. a lot or somewhat more respected, and an equal share say this would make the U.S. a lot or somewhat less respected .

Men and women give similar answers to this question.

Democrats are more than three times as likely as Republicans to say that a woman president would make the U.S. more respected (34% vs. 10%). In turn, Republicans are about twice as likely as Democrats to say that a woman president would make the U.S. less respected (31% vs. 15%).

Republicans (58%) are also more likely than Democrats (51%) to say that having a woman as president would make the U.S. neither more nor less respected or that the president’s gender would not have an impact.

In a separate survey, we asked Americans how important it is to them personally that the U.S. elects a woman president in their lifetime and how likely they think it is that this will happen.

A majority of adults (64%) say that it’s not at all or not too important to them personally that the U.S. elects a woman president in their lifetime or that the president’s gender doesn’t matter.

Some 18% say it’s extremely or very important to them that the U.S. elects a woman president in their lifetime, and the same share says this is somewhat important to them.

There are wider differences on this question by party than by age or gender.

Women (21%) are more likely than men (13%) to say it is highly important to them that a woman is elected president in their lifetime. In turn, greater shares of men than women say that this is either not at all or not too important to them or that the president’s gender doesn’t matter. However, a majority of both men and women say this.

A quarter of women younger than 50 say this is extremely or very important to them – greater than the shares of women 50 and older (17%) and men of any age (13%) who say the same.

About three-in-ten Democrats (31%) say it is extremely or very important to them that the U.S. elects a woman president in their lifetime, compared with just 5% of Republicans.

In turn, Republicans (86%) are twice as likely as Democrats (43%) to say it is not at all or not too important if they ever see a woman elected U.S. president or that the president’s gender doesn’t matter to them.

Americans find no consensus on how likely it is that the U.S. will elect a woman in their lifetime. About half of adults (49%) say it is somewhat likely this will happen, a quarter say it is extremely or very likely , and about an equal share (26%) say it is not too or not at all likely .

Among those who say it’s highly important to them that a woman is elected president in their lifetime, 39% say this is extremely or very likely to happen, 41% say it’s somewhat likely, and 20% say it’s not too or not at all likely that they’ll see a woman elected president.

Smaller shares of those who say it’s somewhat important to them that a woman be elected president (23%) or that it’s not important or that the president’s gender doesn’t matter (22%) say it’s highly likely that the U.S. will elect a woman president in their lifetime.

Greater shares of men (30%) than women (21%) say it is extremely or very likely that there will be a woman president in their lifetime.

Among women, more say this is not too or not at all likely (28%) than say it’s extremely or very likely (21%).

On the other hand, a larger share of men say it is extremely or very likely (30%) than say it is not too or not at all likely (23%).

By partisanship 

A slightly larger share of Democrats (29%) than Republicans (22%) say they think it’s likely there will be a woman elected president in their lifetime.

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Tuesday, November 4, 2008 is the scheduled date for the 56 th presidential elections in the United States. President, as well as, vice-president of the United States will be elected in these elections. Many corresponding elections have also been scheduled that will be carried out with the abovementioned presidential elections, such as local elections, gubernatorial elections, elections for the House of Representatives, etc. Census of 2004 has been considered the partial base for the allocation of votes to each state in the 2008 presidential elections. Subsequently, inauguration of new president and vice president has been scheduled in the month of January 2009. In midst of high-budget and long political campaigns, one of the hottest questions that are rolling down is the chances of the first female president in the political history of the United States. This paper will analyze and discuss different opinions, facts, and perspectives of society that are in favor or against the female presidency in the country.

One of the most discussed candidates for the presidential elections of 2008 has been the wife of former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In November 2003, her run for presidential elections was announced by this Democratic senator from New York. Until the year 2007, no major party had ever nominated a female as a presidential candidate. However, media, bloggers, and American society came into controversy, when national image of Hillary Clinton established her as a candidacy for the presidential elections in 2008. Since then, different magazines, surveys, discussions, and interviews have been carried out, in order to discuss and analyze the position of Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidacy. Until now, opinions seem to be divided and perplexed in terms of deciding whether she can become the first president of the United States or not.

Nowadays, every platform related to the presidential elections is discussing the topic of Democratic Senator from New York over her chances of becoming a loser or the vice versa, the first female president of the United States. A number of experts have indicated the chances of dragging down of Democratic Party in the upcoming elections in the year 2008, and the Republican Party will be sitting in the White House. Perhaps, no political question or opinion is has been sound enough to make a final decision, and therefore, this discussion is continuous and confusing in some sense. Presently, provision of a definite answer to this question is earlier and no one knows the result of these elections. Moreover, evaluation of Hillary by the U.S. voters is an unknown factor that may bring any decision in the country. However, a number of factors may affect, and are affecting the image of Hillary Clinton, which are discussed in this paper.

Hillary has been holding a considerable place in these elections due to her relation with the former president, Bill Clinton, but still, various reports have shown that her political potential and abilities have been underestimated due to her gender. Presently, American society is very confused in deciding whether the history can be changed by the Senator Hillary Clinton as the first female President of the United States, or her gender will drag her down to the losers’ arena. Worldwide, six females are serving as presidents, four females are providing their capabilities as prime ministers, and until now, the United States has not seen any female president in the White House. (Carroll, pp. 33-36) First female presidency can be a debatable discussion, and is being discussed at almost every level in different states of the country. Currently, the U.S. Senate has fourteen females, the House of Representatives has fifty-nine, and eight females are governing different states of the country. Will Hillary Clinton be the first one to serve the country while sitting in the White House, is a big question for the American society. There are speculations that Hillary Clinton may become the first female President of the United States; however, one of the first hindrances in her path is her gender that has not been accepted by the American politics and society yet.

It has been believed by some of the observers and experts that her gender will not let Hillary win the presidential elections in the year 2008. According to a number of surveys and polls, female president is not something that is acceptable to the American people at large. In the year 1920, the U.S. Government gave the right of voting to the women; (Estrich, pp. 45-48) however, every political level underestimated its capabilities. According to the political history of the United States, women have not been encouraged to participate, and especially, make decisions at the top level. Although American society is very liberal in terms of women, as compared with the other nations of the globe, still, women have not been accepted in terms of their leadership. One of the reasons of such discrimination is that American society is still a male-dominant society, and therefore, leadership of a woman is not being encouraged. Females constitute only fifteen and fourteen percent of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the United States respectively. Overt prejudice is one of the foremost obstacles that are confronted by the female politicians in the country, and that is being confronted by Clinton. Presidency of the United States is considered one of the most powerful and responsible job in the globe, and therefore, females are not considered tough enough to handle this hectic job, which is one of the reasons that Hillary is losing against Obama.

In midst of such confrontation at political level, she is not just a New York Senator; she is not the wife of Bill Clinton, or a candidate of 2008 presidential election, but she is just a suburban woman from one of the Northeastern villages of the United States. She likes to wear dresses like a normal woman and laugh out with her family. If the paper looks into her personal life that is very much connected to the debatable topic, her gender, it has been observed that she served as a First Lady of the United States from the year 1993 to 2001, which has affected her personal life at a greater extent. As earlier mentioned in the paper, she is natively from Illinois, and has been representing her Wellesley College at a number of debates and commencement exercises. In the year 1973, she graduated from Yale Law School as a lawyer. In the subsequent year, Arkansas was her destination that connected her with the Congress as a legal counsel. A year later, former U.S President Bill Clinton married her. According to the surveys, magazines, and polls from the year 1988 to 1992, she has been considered one of the most influential female personalities in the United States, especially due to her law practice. (Estrich, pp. 20-24) Welfare of children has been one of the major areas that have been focused primarily by this suburban woman. Still, American society is not ready for a female President. One of the major reasons is that the American people are not much experienced in terms of working with a female leader, and therefore, the public and especially, media is quite perplexed in accepting a female candidate for the presidential elections in the year 2008.

Still, after a long period of campaigns from Hillary Clinton, American society is still perplexed about accepting a female president for its country. Some of the surveys have indicated that Hillary do have the chances to win this election; however, the anti-Clinton campaigns are trying their best to take advantage of her gender, which is still a matter of resistance for the American society.

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What’s the significance of electing a female president? Women respond

On the day Cheryl Lawson Walker graduated from college, she hadn’t thought very much about the future and her place in it — or the obstacles she might face as a woman.

The place was Wellesley; the year was 1969, and the women’s movement was just emerging as a force in America.

But on that day, for the first time, a student had been selected to address the commencement at the women’s school: Hillary Rodham, the student government president. The two women lived in the same dorm, where they’d chatted over their salads at communal meals.

Rodham’s speech sent a jolt through the class.

“We were just thrilled that she felt empowered enough and articulate enough” to speak so boldly, rebutting the remarks of the U.S. senator who spoke before her, which many had found condescending, Walker recalled. Rodham was “much more forward-looking” than many of her classmates, she said, and it would be some years before they, too, really recognized the obstacles they would have to overcome.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is pictured as a student giving a speech during her 1969 commencement at Wellesley College in the town of Wellesley, west of Boston, Massachusetts. Photo courtesy of Wellesley College Archives/Handout via Reuters

The speaker that day — now known as Hillary Clinton — is edging closer to breaking the ultimate glass ceiling as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president of the United States. Her election would surely be a major milestone for women. But her fellow alumnae don’t all feel the same way about its significance.

To be sure, for some, the election of the first female president would be a thrilling moment they’ve been waiting for years to see, the culmination of a struggle that lasted much too long. “I can’t even articulate all the reasons it’s important,” Sarah Schlesinger Hirschfeld, 56, a New York doctor, said. “I think it’s tremendously important for all women, whether they know it or not, to see a woman in the most important leadership role in the country — and for men to see it, too.”

But to others, the milestone has been eclipsed by other advances — seeing women achieve positions of power in different arenas, or witnessing the election of the first African-American president.

Walker, now 68, supports Clinton, but falls into the latter camp. “I know some people are hugely excited by it, see it as symbolically an enormous step, but I don’t happen to be among them,” she said. “I just think it’s a good next step. Certainly not a milestone like it was when Barack Obama was elected.”

And the recently retired literature professor said her young female students, many of whom supported Sen. Bernie Sanders (as have her own children, ages 32 and 35), feel the same way: “For them, the idea of electing a woman is nowhere near as significant as electing the first African-American president was.”

A recent poll found that while three-quarters of registered women voters felt America was ready for a female president, only about a third considered it very important to see one in their lifetime. (The poll was taken before Clinton clinched the nomination.)

“The numbers aren’t high,” Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, said. She attributes it partly to a generational divide, with younger women having grown up accustomed to seeing women in positions of power. “It’s almost as if (some) people feel like it’s already happened, but it hasn’t,” she said of the milestone.

You sense the divide when you talk to Wellesley women of various generations — from women in their 70s who left college years before feminism took hold, to contemporaries of Clinton, to women in their 20s now emerging into the workforce. Though the women interviewed all said they planned to support Clinton over Donald J. Trump, some were vocal supporters of Sanders in the primaries. Even among those who supported Clinton all along, their views on the milestone aren’t necessarily what one might expect.

In May, a group of Wellesley ’62 grads gathered for one of their frequent, informal reunion weekends, meeting for meals on campus and in nearby Boston and celebrating their 75th birthdays. They came from an accomplished class, including a former head of the United States Tennis Association, the first African-American woman in the country to chair an academic pathology department and the late writer Nora Ephron.

When conversation touched on the election, there was certainly a sense of pride at the prospect of a president from Wellesley, one attendee, Martha Bewick, said. But talk was more focused on issues than candidates, she said — on the economy, on terrorism, on the scourge of drugs.

In fact, when the subject of a female president came up, Bewick said, “the general mood was that the question wasn’t pressing” — that it was more of an issue back in 2008, when Clinton faced Obama in the primaries.

“When we elected a black American president, the issue sort of went away,” she said, summing up the mood of the discussion. “There are so many other urgent issues.”

Personally, Bewick, who’s voted both Democratic and Republican in the past, said she’s found herself warming up to Clinton over the months, becoming increasingly impressed with her qualifications. But gender is not foremost on her mind.

“Women have done so well in other fields,” she said. “The presidency was going to catch up sometime.”

To classmate Susan Dworkin, a novelist and playwright, that day can’t come soon enough. To her, a female president would signify a “huge victory” for women.

“Younger women have such a different understanding of the importance of this thing,” Dworkin, who lives in Becket, Massachusetts, said. “To people of my age, to me, it’s gigantic!”

One reason for the divide, Dworkin suggested, is that women her age “grew up with the real torment of sexism — the things you couldn’t do, the places you couldn’t be, the marriages you had to have, the work you never got. We came of age in the middle of this struggle, and we had leaders like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem who pointed out to us what was wrong with our situation.”

“I know that younger women don’t care,” Dworkin added with a sigh. “They take it for granted, the things that we work SO hard for … we were of the generation that really went through all the crap. So Hillary, if she becomes president, that’s the winning of a great struggle for me.”

Laurel Prussing sees the milestone as more of a logical progression — one that was always going to happen at some point.

“Listen, if it happened 20 years ago it would be different,” said Prussing, who is the Democratic mayor of Urbana, Illinois, and a supporter of Sanders. “But people are used to women now. There’s a whole new generation of young people who expect that women are equal.”

Sure, she said, there hasn’t yet been a woman president, “but we have senators, we have governors, it’s gotten to be part of the landscape now — rather than an asteroid from outer space hitting the earth. It’s an achievement, but it’s not earthshaking.”

Prussing was first elected to her post in 2005 and has been in politics since the 1970s, when she was one of the first women elected to her county board.

“I went through all this 30 years ago,” she said. “It’s a new world now.”

Prussing recalled introducing Sanders at a rally of thousands in Chicago. “I said I was supporting Sanders, and I don’t think I’m going to hell! There was a huge roar.”

She was referring to comments by Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state who said in February while campaigning with Clinton that “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” Some female Sanders supporters were offended by the suggestion that they shouldn’t be able to choose their own candidate (Steinem was also criticized when she said young women supported Sanders because “the boys are with Bernie.” She later apologized.)

“I mean, come on!” Prussing said. “We fought all this time and we got the right to vote … I don’t vote for somebody just because they’re a woman.”

In a CNN/ORC poll conducted in March, just 35 percent of women voters said it was either “extremely important” or “very important” to them to see a woman elected president in their lifetime. (The number was 25 percent among male voters).

Walsh, of Rutgers, thinks things could change once women see Clinton accept the nomination at the convention in Philadelphia — potentially a visually powerful moment.

Still, she said, “If you’re 26, I don’t think you see your lifetime’s end looming in front of you in the same way you do even in your 50s. So you think, ‘It’s going to happen in my lifetime — of COURSE it’s going to happen.'”

Emily DiVito, 23, graduated Wellesley a year ago. Six months later, she went to work for the Sanders campaign, canvassing in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York. (She’s now working on a local race in Florida.) When she went back to visit Wellesley, she said, “I would step on campus and think, ‘Oh gosh, do people hate me for whom I support?’ It’s such a strong community there.”

But Wellesley is not entirely Clinton country: In a survey the school conducted in late May of graduating seniors, 65 percent of 215 respondents supported Clinton, 14 percent supported Sanders, and 2 percent supported Donald Trump. The students also said the gender of a political candidate mattered only a little (51 percent) or not at all (31 percent) in this election.

DiVito, 23, said it is “completely important, hugely important” to her to see a female president one day. But she decided to support a candidate whose position on the issues meshed with hers. “At the end of the day I voted for a single person,” she said.

DiVito was particularly stung by the remarks of Albright and Steinem. “I took them personally,” she said. “Especially because I was working for Sanders — it wasn’t just like I had a free bumper sticker!”

She understands what some older women say about having gone through bitter struggle in order to get women where they are today. But, she said, “I think I can be a free thinker and an independent person and come to my own conclusions — and STILL attribute my existence in that sphere to Steinem and Albright and Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisolm and all those awesome kickass ladies that came before.”

Frankie Frank, a rising senior at Wellesley and a science major, said that when Wellesley students express support for Clinton — as she does — people often assume it’s either because Clinton went to Wellesley or because she’s a woman.

“But it’s not the only reason,” she said of the gender issue. “It’s not the only thing we want.”

Still, Frank considers the milestone of a female president a crucial one. “I think the fact that it hasn’t happened yet is shocking,” she said. And, she added, it’s not enough to say, “Maybe in 10 or 20 years.”

“I think the more you say maybe the next one, maybe the next one … I mean, 20 years is a really long time!” she said. “Especially for me. I’m 21. Waiting another lifetime? That’s absurd to me.”

On the day that Hillary Rodham made her splash as a commencement speaker, earning a spot in a Life magazine spread on prominent graduates around the country, classmate Cheryl Brierton received her diploma, too.

Brierton doesn’t recall precisely Rodham’s words, but she recalls how they made her feel.

“She basically said to the senator, ‘We’re going to get out there in the world and do all KINDS of things, and be all KINDS of things … ,'” Brierton recalled. “It sure felt great to have someone speaking up for all of us.”

Years later, Brierton said, she applied for a job as a county prosecutor and was told that though she was the best candidate, she wasn’t getting the position — because people might have trouble accepting a female prosecutor. It was a dispiriting experience. But a few years after that, Brierton found herself in San Diego at a state bar meeting. There, she saw something deeply moving to her.

“I saw all these women who were justices on all different courts,” she said. “I didn’t realize the importance of seeing something like that. The tears came pouring down. It was so powerful that it made me realize how important symbols can be in addition to words.”

“I thought, ‘Yes, just like Hillary said at graduation — women can do anything.’ I don’t think people realize how important it is to SEE it.”

Another graduating classmate that day was Pamela Colony. A biology professor in Cobleskill, New York, who identifies as an independent voter, Colony said she looks around at the rest of the world and sees prominent women leaders.

“I mean, look at all the countries that have had a woman president. What’s wrong with us, this great, liberated country?”

Not that Colony thinks women are, necessarily, better politicians than their male counterparts, based on their gender.

“It’s not to say women are infallible or better than men,” she said. “But it IS important. It’s a step we need to make.”

“And I think now is a good time.”

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Sexism Probably Wasn’t What Doomed Warren’s Campaign

The belief that female candidates for president face impenetrable barriers does more to perpetuate sexism than dismantle it.

With Elizabeth Warren’s decision to drop out of the presidential race last week, a Democratic field that began with half a dozen female contenders is effectively down to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders—a fact that has sparked a surge of feminist anger and dismay . On Twitter, the author and activist Amber Tamblyn urged Warren’s female supporters to give themselves “the space to grieve, and be angry, and be numb.” But what they shouldn’t do is let the Massachusetts senator’s withdrawal convince them that, for female candidates, the presidency still lies beyond a glass ceiling.

At some point, the United States is going to elect a woman to the White House, and Warren’s loss doesn’t change that. Most of the people, male and female, who run for president are unsuccessful. That four female senators made serious bids for the 2020 Democratic nomination suggests that the pipeline of potential future nominees has grown and will continue to do so. And while subtle and not-so-subtle misogyny remains a factor in politics—as does the opposing force of feminist passion, which surely energized Warren’s campaign—many other factors are also in play. Even highly qualified candidates fall short because they chose the wrong strategy or misread the public mood, or because their rivals are just nimbler or luckier. The belief that Warren and other women who set their sights on the White House face virtually insurmountable barriers because of their gender does more to perpetuate sexism in politics than to dismantle it.

For many, the role of gender bias as the primary factor in the collapse of the Warren candidacy—just like in Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in 2016—is self-evident. “Don’t tell me this isn’t about sexism. I’ve been around too long for that,” the feminist pundit Jessica Valenti wrote . And yet others note that fewer than a quarter of female Democratic voters in Massachusetts voted for Warren in that state’s primary. Had the voters who twice elected the former Harvard Law School professor to the Senate suddenly succumbed to sexism? Even white female college graduates, her strongest demographic, gave her only a narrow plurality of 33 percent to Biden’s 31 percent. Are two-thirds of them in thrall to internalized misogyny—or might other factors have contributed to Warren’s third-place finish in her own state?

Claims of a pervasively bigoted, misogynistic climate—whether toward Warren or Clinton—tend to rest on sweeping but largely unquantifiable and unfalsifiable assertions that female candidates are subjected to resentment and harsh scrutiny in a way that men are not. Attempts to back up these claims with data often reference a 2010 Harvard study that supposedly concluded, as the feminist philosopher Kate Manne summarized in a recent Washington Post essay , that “men who seek power were viewed as stronger and tougher, while power-seeking women provoked feelings of disgust and contempt.”

But what did the Harvard study actually find? The researchers asked 230 American adults (two-thirds of them women) to read a short biography of a fictional state senator identified as “John Burr” or “Ann Burr” and rate him or her on various traits, including toughness and competence. Respondents also rated how much they felt various positive or negative emotions toward Burr. For half of the participants, the biography had additional heavy-handed lines discussing Burr’s reputation for being “ambitious” and having “a strong will to power,” as well as a purported quote from the senator stating that “being hungry” is the key to political success.

The study did find that, with the “power-seeking” cues, the female politician’s ratings became somewhat more negative while those of the male politician improved slightly. On the other hand, neither the media reports nor the authors’ own summary mentioned that without those cues, “Ann” got markedly better ratings than “John” on everything, including strength and toughness. When neither was described as ostentatiously grasping for power, subjects regarded the female Burr more favorably.

And what about the “disgust and contempt” that Manne described? This refers to the study’s measure of what the authors call “moral outrage” toward Senator Burr, based on the participants’ self-reported feelings of disgust, contempt, or anger toward the fictional politician. In the absence of the power-seeking cues, the average moral-outrage score, on a scale of 1 to 7, was 1.23 for the woman and 1.5 for the man; with the cues, it was 1.62 for the woman and 1.45 for the man (a gap that barely reaches statistical significance when individual variation is factored in). In other words, the amount of “moral outrage” subjects felt in every scenario was somewhere between “none” and “very little.”

Manne, who has argued that a pervasive patriarchy in America relentlessly punishes women who challenge male dominance, cites a pair of other studies , from 2004 and 2007, as potential evidence of sexist bias in politics. The gist of this research is that women who are described as highly successful in a stereotypically male job, such as financier or aircraft-company executive, tend to be rated as somewhat less likable than comparable men: In one experiment, for instance, average likability scores on a 1-to-9 scale were 6.3 for a woman and 7.3 for a man. (The advantage was reversed not only in female-typed jobs but in ones cued as gender-neutral.)

But whether this research—conducted with groups of a few dozen undergraduate psychology students—sheds light on actual voters’ views of female candidates is an open question. In a 2009 study that approximated a real-world setting much more closely, using a sample of more than 1,100 American adults, the Dartmouth College political scientist Deborah Jordan Brooks found that people who read made-up news stories about a fictional male or female Senate candidate did not penalize women more for gaffes, tears, or displays of anger—and that a female candidate with no prior political experience tended to be viewed more positively than a man with a similar background.

Meanwhile, in real-life congressional elections—since as far back as the 1980s—women who run win as often as men do. Do these women, as some have suggested, need to be better than men to do as well? Testing this proposition is virtually impossible. But some evidence suggests that being female in 21st-century America is not a disadvantage in political races. Jennifer L. Lawless, a professor of government at American University, and Danny Hayes, a professor of political science at George Washington University, carried out a detailed analysis of voter surveys and media coverage from the 2010 midterms and found that “candidate sex does not affect journalists’ coverage of, or voters’ attitudes toward, the women and men running for office.”

Those data, I should note, came from congressional elections; some analysts believe that Americans who have no problem with female legislators may be more hesitant to elect women to executive positions, though the evidence remains inconclusive. “The optimistic story that we’ve been telling for 15 years is not about presidential politics,” Lawless told me in an interview two days after Warren’s withdrawal. “It might be! But we don’t have systematic evidence, because we still have too few women running for president.”

Does Lawless think sexism played a role in either Clinton’s defeat or Warren’s failure? Her conclusion is that we simply don’t know. In 2016, she pointed out, the female candidate was Hillary Clinton, who had unique baggage after decades in the public eye. “It was hard to tell if it was sexism or Clintonism,” Lawless told me. And this year? “Although some very qualified female contenders did not make it to the end of the race,” Lawless said, “neither did some very qualified men.”

None of which is to say that sexism is extinct. In a June 2019 Ipsos poll, about 12 percent of Democrats and independents disagreed strongly or somewhat with the statement “I am comfortable with a female president.” But far more—40 percent—felt that it was important for the Democratic Party to nominate a woman.

Lawless does believe that gender currently puts up one distinct hurdle for women: the widespread belief that America is not willing to elect a female president. Because of this assumption, some voters eager to get Trump out of office might see a male candidate as a safer choice. Other commentators have raised the same issue in recent months. “While most Americans claim they are ready for a woman president, far fewer see other people as quite so open to the possibility,” the New York Times columnist Michelle Cottle wrote in January, pointing to several polls in which this pattern emerged. Warren supporters have deplored the media’s flogging of the “electability” issue as a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” But no one seems to be asking whether the relentless focus on the misogyny allegedly thwarting female candidates—and, specifically, Clinton in 2016—played into this self-fulfilling prophecy as well.

A June 2019 poll found that 41 percent of Democrats (and 25 percent of all women) thought that “gender and sexism” played a “major role” in Clinton’s loss to Trump. This is certainly the view embraced by much feminist and progressive punditry: On November 9, 2016, well-known publications such as Slate , BuzzFeed , and Splinter all ran headlines asserting, based on Clinton’s loss, that “America hates women.”

Viewed differently, though, Clinton’s campaign was groundbreaking. She won her party’s nomination in a tough contest and got 3 million more votes than Trump in the general election. Her ultimate loss, one could argue, had far less to do with misogyny than with the peculiarities of the Electoral College. That Clinton lost to a man widely regarded as an unqualified buffoon was understandably galling to her supporters. But anyone tempted to see Trump’s ability to beat a far more competent and more fit female opponent as prima facie evidence of sexism should remember that first, he won the nomination by beating 16 other candidates—15 of whom were men, and nearly all of whom had more traditional political credentials than he did. It is also worth noting that when two NYU professors produced a half-hour play that presented the Clinton-Trump debates with the candidates’ genders flipped, many spectators and project members were discomfited by how much they liked the female Trump and disliked the male Clinton.

Of course turning a blind eye to sexism where it exists and trying to wish it away by positive thinking is a bad idea. Yet not every criticism of a female politician’s campaign is sexist—even if it’s mean-spirited and unfair. A candidate can be called condescending, inauthentic, or deceptive (fairly or not) for reasons other than misogyny. A politician’s appearance, personality, or voice can be widely disliked for reasons other than misogyny; in 2015 and 2016, Ted Cruz was often attacked in highly personal terms . When every unflattering remark about Clinton or Warren is attributed to sexism, it antagonizes some people and demoralizes others.

It also promotes more skepticism about women candidates’ chances than is warranted either from Clinton’s near-victory in 2016 or Warren’s showing this year. Perhaps, when it comes to sexism in politics, we should paraphrase Franklin D. Roosevelt’s dictum about economic depression: The worst thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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She’s the Next President. Wait, Did You Read That Right?

A new study, which found that Americans were reluctant to use the word “she” to describe a hypothetical president, highlights the sneaky ways language illuminates bias.

By Jessica Bennett

It was a blip of a moment during the Democratic debate last week, one perhaps overshadowed by a long discussion of the prospect of a female president. Responding to a question about climate change, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said, “I will do everything a president can do all by herself on the first day.”

All by herself . Did you clock the use of that word?

A study released this month shows that you did — and that, in fact, it may have cost you a third of a second in reading time just now.

Her . It’s a three-letter pronoun that, despite the seemingly endless debate over whether a woman can become president, feels relatively benign. But what if its use, or an unconscious aversion to its use, had some small power to influence voter perception? Could something as simple as a pronoun reflect, or even affect, the way voters understand power?

That’s the question raised by the research , conducted by cognitive scientists and linguists at M.I.T., the University of Potsdam and the University of California, San Diego, who surveyed people during the run-up to the 2016 election. Wanting to understand how world events might influence language, the researchers hypothesized that the possibility a woman would be elected president at that time might override the implicit bias people had toward referring to the president as “he.”

But what they found was that Americans — even young, self-identified Democratic women who believed Hillary Clinton would win — were reluctant to use “she” even in the context of a hypothetical president.

“There seemed to be a real bias against referring to the next president as ‘she,’” said Roger Levy, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at M.I.T. and one of the authors of the study.

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Essay on Female Education in English (150, 200, 250, 500 Words)

Here, we’ve presented essays on “Female Education” in 150, 200, 250 & 500 word samples. All the essays will be helpful for students of all classes i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & class 12.

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Essay on Female Education in 150 Words

Introduction.

Female education is essential for the progress of any society. Educating women leads to numerous social and economic benefits, promoting gender equality and reducing poverty. It also fosters a healthier and more informed population, contributing to the overall development of a nation.

Importance of Female Education

Educating women empowers them to contribute to the workforce, improving their families’ economic status. It also leads to better health outcomes, as educated women are more likely to understand health information and make informed choices about their families’ well-being. Additionally, when women are educated, they are more likely to educate their children, creating a cycle of learning that benefits future generations. Female education also helps in reducing child marriages and lowering birth rates, contributing to the overall welfare of society.

In conclusion, female education is crucial for societal growth and prosperity. It equips women with the knowledge and skills to improve their lives and those around them. Ensuring equal access to education for women is a vital step towards a more equitable and thriving world.

Female Education Essay in 200 Words

Female education is vital for the progress and development of any society. It ensures that women have the skills and knowledge necessary to participate fully in social, economic, and political life. By investing in female education, societies can achieve significant advancements in various areas, including health, economic growth, and social equality.

Economic Benefits

Educating women has a direct impact on economic development. Women who are educated are more likely to join the workforce, start their own businesses, and contribute to the economy. This increased participation boosts household incomes and national GDP. Additionally, educated women are better equipped to manage financial resources, leading to improved economic stability and growth for their families and communities.

Health and Social Benefits

Female education also has profound health and social benefits. Educated women are more likely to make informed health choices, leading to lower maternal and infant mortality rates. They understand the importance of hygiene, nutrition, and healthcare, which positively impacts their families’ overall well-being. Furthermore, educated women tend to marry later and have fewer children, which helps in controlling population growth and reducing the strain on resources.

Empowerment and Equality

Educating women promotes gender equality and empowers them to advocate for their rights. It provides them with the confidence and knowledge to challenge societal norms and fight against discrimination. This empowerment leads to more balanced decision-making in households and communities, fostering a more inclusive society where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

In conclusion, female education is essential for creating a prosperous and equitable society. It brings numerous economic, health, and social benefits that contribute to the overall development of a nation. By ensuring that women have equal access to education, we pave the way for a brighter future where everyone can thrive and contribute to the growth and well-being of their communities.

Essay Writing on Female Education in 250 Words

Female education is a cornerstone of societal progress, fostering economic growth, improving health outcomes, and advancing gender equality. According to UNESCO, there has been significant progress in recent decades, with the global literacy rate for women increasing from 64% in 1990 to 82% in 2020. However, disparities still exist, particularly in developing regions, highlighting the need for continued investment in female education worldwide.

Economic Empowerment

Education empowers women to participate in the workforce, driving economic growth and poverty reduction. Studies show that for every additional year of schooling a girl receives, her income potential increases by 10-20%. By providing women with skills and knowledge, they become catalysts for innovation and entrepreneurship, contributing to sustainable development and prosperity.

Health and Well-being

Educated women are more likely to make informed decisions about their health and that of their families. Research by the World Bank indicates that maternal mortality rates decrease by approximately 5-10% with each additional year of education for women. Moreover, educated women are better equipped to address healthcare challenges, leading to improved child nutrition, lower infant mortality rates, and greater access to reproductive health services.

Social Impact

Female education has far-reaching social benefits, including reduced instances of child marriage and increased gender equality. UNICEF reports that girls who stay in school are less likely to marry before the age of 18, empowering them to pursue higher education and career opportunities. Additionally, educated women are more likely to participate in decision-making processes at the household and community levels, leading to more inclusive and equitable societies.

Challenges and Solutions

Despite progress, barriers to female education persist, including cultural norms, poverty, and lack of access to quality schooling. To address these challenges, governments and organizations must invest in initiatives that promote girls’ education, including scholarships, mentorship programs, and infrastructure development. By prioritizing female education, we can overcome these barriers and unlock the full potential of women and girls worldwide.

In conclusion, female education is essential for achieving sustainable development and building a more equitable world. By investing in girls’ education, we can break the cycle of poverty, improve health outcomes, and advance gender equality. As we strive towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, ensuring equal access to education for all girls must remain a top priority, driving progress and prosperity for generations to come.

Writing an Essay on Female Education in 500 Words

Female education is not just a matter of equality; it’s a catalyst for societal progress and economic development. Despite global advancements, disparities in educational access and attainment persist, particularly in developing countries like India. According to the World Bank, in India, only 65% of females aged 15 and above are literate, compared to 82% of males. This gap underscores the urgent need for targeted interventions to promote female education and empower women to participate fully in social, economic, and political spheres.

Historical Context

Historically, women’s education in India has faced numerous challenges, including cultural norms, socio-economic barriers, and limited access to schooling. However, significant strides have been made over the years, thanks to government initiatives and grassroots efforts. The introduction of schemes like the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao has helped improve female literacy rates and reduce gender disparities in education.

Economic Implications

Investing in female education yields substantial economic returns. Studies show that closing the gender gap in education could boost India’s GDP by up to 27%. Educated women are more likely to secure formal employment, contribute to household incomes, and invest in their families’ well-being. Additionally, educating girls has a multiplier effect, as educated mothers are more likely to prioritize their children’s education, breaking the cycle of intergenerational poverty.

Female education is closely linked to improved health outcomes and social well-being. Educated women are more likely to access reproductive healthcare services, resulting in lower maternal mortality rates and improved child health. According to UNICEF, educating girls is one of the most effective strategies for reducing child marriage and promoting gender equality, as educated girls are more likely to delay marriage and have fewer children.

Challenges in India

Despite progress, challenges to female education persist in India. Factors such as poverty, child marriage, gender-based violence, and inadequate infrastructure hinder girls’ access to quality education. Moreover, cultural beliefs and social norms often prioritize boys’ education over girls’, perpetuating gender disparities in schooling.

Government Initiatives

The Indian government has implemented various initiatives to promote female education and address these challenges. Programs like the National Programme for Education of Girls at Elementary Level (NPEGEL) and the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) aim to enhance girls’ enrollment and retention in schools, especially in rural and marginalized communities. Additionally, schemes like the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) provide skill development opportunities for young women, enhancing their employability and economic independence.

Role of NGOs and Civil Society

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society play a crucial role in supplementing government efforts and advocating for girls’ education. Organizations like Educate Girls and Pratham work tirelessly to bridge the gender gap in education, mobilizing communities, training teachers, and providing scholarships to girls from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Empowerment and Leadership

Education empowers women to become agents of change in their communities and beyond. Educated women are more likely to participate in decision-making processes, advocate for their rights, and challenge societal norms. By nurturing female leaders and role models, we can inspire future generations of girls to pursue their dreams and contribute meaningfully to society.

In conclusion, female education is a cornerstone of India’s development agenda, with far-reaching implications for economic growth, health, and social equity. While progress has been made, concerted efforts are needed to overcome persistent challenges and ensure equal access to quality education for all girls. By investing in female education and empowering women, India can unlock its full potential and build a more prosperous and inclusive future for generations to come.

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How to Write a 250-Word Essay: Length, Outline, & Example

A 250-word essay is a frequent task assigned to high school and college students. It’s a widely used format for scholarship applications and college admissions. However, mastering the art of concise yet impactful writing can challenge many students. If you feel overwhelmed by the task of condensing your ideas into 250 words—don’t worry; we have your back!

In this article, we’ll discuss the essential aspects of structuring and formatting a 250-word essay and provide examples. Prepare to discover the secrets that captivate and leave your readers in awe.

• 📝 250-Word Essay Template
• ✅ 250-Word Essay – Step by Step
• 🌟 Writing Prompts
• 📖 Essay Example
• 🤓 More Essay Topics

🔗 References

📝 what does a 250-word essay look like.

Most of the time, the challenge of beginning a 250-word essay stems from a lack of clarity on its structure and format. In this section, you’ll find outlines for various types of 250-word essays, highlighting their key components. With this valuable roadmap, you’ll be well-equipped to embark on your writing journey.

250 Word Essay Outline

A 250-word essay is a concise piece of writing that captures the essence of a topic within a restricted word count. It usually consists of an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. Each section plays a crucial role in shaping the essay’s overall length, making every word count.

• Introduction (about 50 words or 2-5 sentences). It should introduce the main idea, include a thesis statement, and catch the reader’s attention.
• Body (about 150 words for 2-3 paragraphs). The body should present your main points or arguments and provide evidence or examples.
• Conclusion (about 50 words). This part should summarize the main points discussed in the essay and include a rephrased thesis statement.

Now, let’s look at general outlines for different essay types.

Definition Essay

A definition essay explains the meaning of a specific term or concept. Usually, definition essay topics include questions like “Define X” or “What is an X?”.

Below is a typical outline for a 250-word definition essay.

Analytical Essay

An analytical essay answers questions like “Analyze X” or “What are the components of X?”. You may be required to analyze and interpret a piece of literature, artwork, or any other subject.

Here’s a typical outline for an analytical essay.

Cause & Effect Essay

A cause-and-effect essay explores the relationship between events or phenomena. Usually, it answers the questions like “What are the causes of X?” or “What led to X?”

The outline for a cause-and-effect essay looks as shown below.

Compare & Contrast Essay

A compare and contrast essay investigates the similarities and differences between two or more subjects. It aims to answer questions like “How does X differ from Y?” or “Compare X and Y.”

Check out the possible outline for a compare and contrast essay.

Process Essay

A process essay explains how to do something or how something works. It responds to prompts like “List the steps involved in X” or “Explain what happened in X.”

In a process essay, arranging your discussion in chronological order is a must. Here’s an example of an outline for this paper type.

Argumentative Essay

An argumentative essay presents a claim or argument on a controversial topic and supports it with evidence and reasoning. Usually, this kind of paper centers around a question like “A famous person said X. Do you agree or disagree?”

A typical outline for an argumentative essay looks as shown below.

250 Word Essay Format

Even though a 250-word essay is short, you should still format it according to the academic requirements. Here are the main ones:

• Font style. Avoid using fancy fonts, as they may be difficult to read. Instead, opt for standard fonts used in academic writing—Times New Roman or Arial. The default font provided by MS Word, Calibri, is also perfectly acceptable.
• Font size. It should be 11 or 12 points.
• Margins. Set margins to 1 inch (2.54 cm) on all sides.
• Line spacing. As a rule, professors expect papers to be double-spaced.
• Alignment. Your essay should be left-aligned: it looks neater than fully justified.
• Indents. Don’t indent the first line of your paragraphs.
• Reference List: Format the reference list according to your citation style requirements ( MLA , APA , Chicago, or Harvard).

250 Word Essay Length

A 250-word essay is approximately 1 double-spaced or 0.5 single-spaced pages. However, the essay’s length can vary depending on the margins, font size, and spacing. If you’re unsure about your paper’s formatting requirements, it’s better to consult your professor.

✅ How to Write a 250-Word Essay

At first, writing a 250-word essay may seem challenging, but following these steps can help you effectively organize your thoughts and create a concise and compelling paper.

1. Plan the Structure

Read and analyze the essay prompt or question carefully. Identify the central theme or idea you need to address in your essay. Then create an outline —it’s an essential step when writing such a concise paper. Decide on the main points you want to discuss and the order in which you will present them

2. Write the Introduction

Start with a hook that captures readers’ attention and then briefly review the topic and its significance. Introduce the key terms or concepts you will be discussing in your essay. Finally, develop a thesis statement —a sentence that contains the main idea of your writing.

3. Write the Body

Develop your main points in separate paragraphs. It’s best to start each with a topic sentence that expresses the paragraph’s main idea. Use evidence, examples, or research data to support your points. If you refer to any sources in your body paragraphs, remember to cite them properly to avoid plagiarism.

4. Conclude Your Essay

Summarize all the main points and emphasize the importance of your topic. Remind the readers of the thesis statement by paraphrasing it in the concluding paragraph. You can end your essay with a thought-provoking message, a call to action, or a suggestion for further research or exploration.

5. Revise and Proofread

Review your essay for clarity, coherence , and grammar errors. Ensure your ideas are well-organized and your writing is concise and to the point. Check for any repetitive or unnecessary information and remove it. Make sure your essay adheres to the formatting guidelines provided by your teacher.

🌟 250 Word Scholarship Essay: Writing Prompts

A 250-word writing is a standard format for scholarship and college application essays. For your inspiration, we collected some 250-word essay scholarship examples that you can check out below!

📃 250-Word Essay on Why I Deserve a Scholarship

In a 250-word essay on why you deserve a scholarship, you can focus on highlighting your achievements, goals, and aspirations that make you a deserving candidate for financial support. Here are some points you can include in the body paragraph:

• Academic achievements. Discuss your academic performance, including honors, awards, or other achievements.
• Personal accomplishments. Share any personal achievements that demonstrate your character, leadership skills , or commitment to making a positive impact.
• Future impact. Explain how the scholarship will enable you to contribute to society through research, innovation, community service, or other means.

📃 Why This College Essay: 250 Words Examples

In a “Why this college” essay, you explain why you are interested in attending a particular college or university. There are many points you can include in the body of your 250-word essay:

• Academic fit. Discuss how the college’s educational programs, majors, or courses align with your academic interests and goals.
• Campus culture and community. Explain why the college’s campus culture and student organizations resonate with you.
• Personal connection. Recount your own experiences or interactions with the college or its community. It may involve visiting the campus, participating in events, or engaging with current students or alumni.

📃 250 Word Essay on Why I Want to Be a Nurse

In a 250-word essay explaining your career choice, you should be authentic and sincere. Share personal experiences or realizations demonstrating your passion for a particular field. Here are some ideas you can use for a “Why I want to be a nurse” essay:

• Personal experiences. Discuss any personal experiences that have influenced your desire to become a nurse.
• Compassion and empathy. Highlight your natural inclination toward caring for others and your ability to empathize with those in need.
• Interest in healthcare. Share your interest in healthcare and how nursing aligns with your passion for promoting health and well-being.

📃 Life Changing Experience Essay: 250 Words

In a 250-word “life-changing experience” essay, you can focus on describing an event or series of events that impacted your life and changed your perspective, values, or goals. Here are some points you can include:

• Introduction. Introduce the event or experience you will discuss and explain its significance.
• Description. Describe the event or experience, focusing on your emotions and thoughts.
• Lessons learned. Share the lessons or insights you gained from the experience. What did you learn about yourself, others, or the world?

📖 Essay 250 Words: Example

If you’re still wondering how to write a concise but meaningful paper, check out our 250-word social media essay example.

The role of social media in spreading fake news and misinformation has become a significant concern in today’s digital age. With the increasing popularity of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, information can spread rapidly, regardless of its reliability and accuracy. This essay will explore how social media contributes to disseminating fake news and misinformation. One of the primary reasons social media is a breeding ground for fake news is its ability to reach a vast audience within seconds. With minimal entry barriers, social platforms allow anyone to share information, regardless of its truthfulness, making it effortless for individuals with ill intentions to spread falsehoods among unsuspecting users. Additionally, social media algorithms play a significant role in amplifying fake news. It prioritizes content that receives high levels of engagement, such as likes, shares, and comments. As a result, controversial content tends to receive more publicity, even if it lacks credibility. In order to deal with the spread of false news on social media, platforms need to take accountability by enforcing stricter policies, implementing fact-checking measures, and prioritizing the promotion of reliable sources. It’s also essential to equip users with tools to authenticate information before sharing it to prevent the spread of misinformation on social media. Social media undoubtfully plays a significant role in spreading false news and misinformation due to its expansive reach, algorithmic biases, and echo chamber effect. It is crucial for individuals to be critical consumers of information and for social media platforms to take proactive measures to combat this issue.

🤓 250 Words Essay Topics

A 250-word essay can cover various topics, depending on the assignment’s purpose and requirements. Here we’ve gathered some interesting ideas you can use for your paper:

• How does social media influence people’s self-esteem?
• Obesity and its effect on human health.
• Is animal testing ethical?
• Vaccines for kids: pros and cons.
• How does motivation affect people’s life and success?
• The social significance of wearing school uniforms.
• How safe is GMO food?
• The history of hip-hop music.
• The importance of promoting fair labor policies.
• Ways to prevent domestic violence.
• Various forms of dance and their cultural significance.
• The cultural importance of Renaissance art.
• How does the family environment affect students’ academic success?
• Homeschooling: pros and cons.
• How would you define success?
• Best ways to deal with stress.
• Should kindergartens be more literacy-based or play-based?
• How does pop culture affect teenagers?
• How do physical exercises influence mental health?
• The importance of family values.
• The Principles of Inclusive Education.
• Osteoporosis: The Metabolic Bone Disease.
• The E-Commerce Case With Foodmart.
• The Reality in Drug Addiction Research: Ethnography.
• The Aging in Place Model: Role and Importance.
• Visual Learning and Ways to Apply It.
• Water Scarcity Issue and Environment.
• The Use of Data Collection: Personal Experiences.
• Haunted City: Ghosts of Berlin.
• The Importance of Water for the Body.
• Animal Research and Ethical Treatment.
• Medicare and Medicaid Role in Meeting Health Care Needs.
• The Consensus Model and the Advanced Practice Nurse’s Role.
• US Corporate Executive’s Cultural Shock in China.
• Benefits of Genetic Engineering.
• Standard of Care in Healthcare System.
• British Colonization of America.
• Information Assurance and the Role of Time.
• Urological Disorders in the Older Adult.
• The Ethical Side of Drug Patents.
• Non-Governmental Organization Committee on the Status of Women.
• On the Benefits of a Private Social Security System.
• The Work of a Journalist During Investigation.
• Note-Taking Styles of College Students.
• The Sin of Betrayal in Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy.”
• The Concept of the “War on Drugs.”
• Methods for Determining Body Fat.
• Postwar Economic Prosperity of Ordinary Americans.
• Mound Cultures of North America.
• Congestive Heart Failure: Nursing Diagnosis & Care Plan.
• Osteoporosis: Causes and Treatment.
• Research of Medical Professionals’ Cultural Competence.
• Vaccination and Its Economic Implications.
• Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia.
• Human Resource Planning and Return on Investment.
• Philosophical Thought and Its Levels in Nursing.
• Seamless Implementation of Electronic Medical Records.
• Serving Vulnerable Populations: Meals on Wheels.
• Probiotics Use by a Patient on Antibiotics.
• Hawaiian Mythology and Genealogy of Gods.
• From Medical Practice to Daily Life Study.
• Implementation of Evidence into Practice.
• The Issues of the Effectiveness of CPUs.
• Aspects of Capital Budgeting Practice.

❓250 Words Essay: FAQ

How many pages is a 250-word essay.

The number of pages in a 250-word essay can vary depending on the font size, spacing, and formatting. A 250-word paper is approximately one double-spaced page or half a single-spaced page. It’s important to remember that the focus should be on the quality and content of the essay rather than the number of pages.

How Long is a 250-Word Essay?

The number of paragraphs and sentences in a 250-word essay can vary depending on the writer’s style. However, as a general guideline, a 250-word essay will likely consist of 3-4 paragraphs . The introduction and conclusion are usually the same length and comprise 1-2 sentences, while the body paragraphs make up the main content of the essay.

How to Write a 250-Word Essay for a Scholarship?

When writing a 250-word scholarship essay, you should take your time, be authentic, and ensure your paper reflects your true self. Start as soon as possible to have enough time before the application deadline. When brainstorming ideas, review other scholarship essay examples. Don’t hesitate to ask other people for feedback and help with proofreading.

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Women, Power & Leadership

Many more women provide visible leadership today than ever before. Opening up higher education for women and winning the battle for suffrage brought new opportunities, along with widespread availability of labor-saving devices and the discovery and legalization of reliable, safe methods of birth control. Despite these developments, women ambitious for leadership still face formidable obstacles: primary if not sole responsibility for childcare and homemaking; the lack of family-friendly policies in most workplaces; gender stereotypes perpetuated in popular culture; and in some parts of the world, laws and practices that deny women education or opportunities outside the home. Some observers believe that only a few women want to hold significant, demanding leadership posts; but there is ample evidence on the other side of this debate, some of it documented in this volume. Historic tensions between feminism and power remain to be resolved by creative theorizing and shrewd, strategic activism. We cannot know whether women are “naturally” interested in top leadership posts until they can attain such positions without making personal and family sacrifices radically disproportionate to those faced by men.

Nannerl O. Keohane , a Fellow of the American Academy since 1991, is a political philosopher and university administrator who served as President of Wellesley College and Duke University. She is currently affiliated with the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and is a Visiting Scholar at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University. Her books include Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1980), Higher Ground: Ethics and Leadership in the Modern University (2006), and Thinking about Leadership (2010). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy.

One of the most dramatic changes in recent decades has been the increasing prominence of women in positions of leadership. Many more women are providing leadership in government, business, higher education, nonprofit ventures, and other areas of life, in many more countries of the world, than would ever have been true in the past. This essay addresses four aspects of this development.

I will note the kinds of leadership women have routinely provided, and list factors that help explain why this pattern has changed dramatically in the past half century. I will mention some of the obstacles that still block the path for women in leadership. Then I will ask how ambitious women generally are for leadership, and discuss the fraught relationship between feminism and power, before concluding with a brief look at the future that might lie ahead.

As we approach this subject, we need to understand what we mean by “leadership.” I use the following definition: “Leaders define or clarify goals for a group of individuals and bring together the energies of members of that group to pursue those goals.” 1  This conception is deliberately broad, designed to capture various types of leadership, in various groups, not just the work of leaders who hold the most visible offices in a large society.

A leader can define or clarify goals by issuing a memo or an executive order, an edict or a fatwa or a tweet, by passing a law, barking a command, or presenting an interesting idea in a meeting of colleagues. Leaders can mobilize people’s energies in ways that range from subtle, quiet persuasion to the coercive threat or the use of deadly force. Sometimes a charismatic leader such as Martin Luther King Jr. can define goals and mobilize energies through rhetoric and the power of example.

It is also helpful to distinguish leadership from two closely related concepts: power and authority.

All leaders have some measure of power, in the sense of influencing or determining priorities for other individuals. But leadership cannot be a synonym for holding power. Power is often defined in the straightforward way suggested by political scientist Robert Dahl: “ A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” 2 A bully or an assailant with a gun wields power in this sense, but it would not be appropriate to call such a person a “leader.”

Leadership often involves exercising authority with the formal legitimacy of a position in a governmental structure or high office in a large organization. Holding authority in these ways provides clear opportunities for leadership. Yet many men and women we would want to call leaders are not in positions of authority, and not everyone in a formal office provides leadership. As John Gardner, author of several valuable books on leadership, noted, “We have all occasionally encountered top persons who couldn’t lead a squad of seven-year-olds to the ice cream counter.” 3

We can think of leadership as a spectrum, in terms of both visibility and the power the leader wields. On one end of the spectrum, we have the most visible: authoritative leaders like the president of the United States or the prime minister of the United Kingdom, or a dictator such as Hitler or Qaddafi. At the opposite end of the spectrum is casual, low-key leadership found in countless situations every day around the world, leadership that can make a significant difference to the individuals whose lives are touched by it.

Over the centuries, the first kind–the out-in-front, authoritative leadership–has generally been exhibited by men. Some men in positions of great authority, including Nelson Mandela, have chosen a strategy of “leading from behind”; more often, however, top leaders have been quite visible in their exercise of power. Women (as well as some men) have provided casual, low-key leadership behind the scenes. But this pattern has been changing, as more women have taken up opportunities for visible, authoritative leadership.

Across all the centuries of which we have any record, women have been largely absent from positions of formal authority. Such posts, with a few exceptions, were routinely held by men. Women have therefore lacked opportunities to exercise leadership in the most visible public settings. And as both cause and consequence of this fact, leadership has been closely associated with masculinity. In some parts of the world this assumption is still dominant: even in what we think of as the most advanced countries, there are people who think that men are “natural leaders,” and women are meant to follow them.

Yet despite this stubborn linkage between leadership and maleness, some women in almost every society have proved themselves capable of providing strong, visible leadership. Women exercised formal public authority when dynasty or marriage-lines trumped gender, so that Elizabeth I of England or Catherine the Great of Russia could rule as monarch. There are cultures in which wise women are regularly consulted, either as individuals or as members of the council of the tribe. All-female institutions are especially auspicious for women as leaders, including convents, girls’ schools, and women’s colleges, where women have often held authoritative posts.

Women have led in situations where men are temporarily absent: in wartime when the men are away fighting, or in a community like Nantucket in the eighteenth or nineteenth century, where most of the men were whaling in distant seas for years at a time. Women have provided visible leadership in movements for social betterment, including the prohibition and settlement house campaigns of the late nineteenth century and the battle for women’s suffrage. “First ladies” have leveraged their access to power to promote important causes. The impressive accomplishments of Jane Addams and Eleanor Roosevelt stand as prime examples of female leadership. Women have been leaders in family businesses in many different settings. And countless women across history have provided leadership in education, religious activities, care for the sick and wounded, cultural affairs, and charity for the poor.

So that’s a rough, impressionistic survey of the leadership women have exercised in the past: a very few “out front,” as queens or abbesses or heads of school, with many providing more informal leadership in smaller communities or behind the scenes.

This picture has changed dramatically in the past half-century. Many more women today hold authoritative posts, as prime ministers, heads of universities, CEOs of corporations, presidents of nonprofit organizations, and bishops in Protestant denominations. Why has this happened in the past few decades, rather than sooner, or later, or never?

As we ponder this question, we must also note that the changes have proceeded unevenly. It is still unusual for a woman to be CEO of a major public corporation or the president of a country with direct elections for the head of government, as distinct from parliamentary systems. Women’s leadership in religious organizations depends on the doctrines of the religion or sect and the influences of the surrounding society on how these doctrines are interpreted. We will look at some of the barriers blocking change in these and other areas.

And finally, are women as ambitious for leadership as men, or are there systematic differences between the two sexes in the appetite for gaining and using power? Can tensions between the core concepts of feminism and the wielding of power help us understand these issues?

In the past half-century, fifty-six women have served as president or prime minister of their countries. 4 In the United States, women hold office as senators and congresswomen, governors and mayors, cabinet officers and university presidents, heads of foundations and social service agencies, rabbis, generals, and principal investigators. Women have been the CEOs of GM, IBM, Yahoo, and Pepsi-Cola. There are women judges sitting at all levels of the court system, and women leaders in several prominent international organizations.

In the United States, the unprecedented numbers of women candidates in the 2018 midterm elections and the 2019 Democratic presidential primaries are striking examples of women tackling the long-standing identification of leadership with masculinity. One hundred and seventeen women won office in 2018, including ninety-six members of the House of Representatives, twelve senators, and nine governors. Each of these was a record number, compared with any year in the past. 5 Among Democrats, female candidates were more likely to win than their male counterparts. 6 Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for the presidency was a significant step in splintering, if not yet shattering, one of the hardest “glass ceilings” in the world. And Angela Merkel’s deft leadership for Germany and the European Union has provided a model for women in politics worldwide.

We can multiply instances from many different fields, from many different contexts: women today are much more likely to provide visible leadership in major institutions than they have been at any time in history.

Yet why have these changes occurred precisely at this time? I’ll suggest half a dozen factors that have made it possible for women to take these significant strides in leadership.

First is the establishment of institutions of higher education for women to-ward the end of the nineteenth century. Both men and women worked to open male institutions to women and to build schools and colleges specifically for women students. Careers and activities that had been beyond the reach of all women now for the first time became a plausible ambition. Higher education provided a new platform for leadership by women in many fields.

Virginia Woolf’s powerful essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) makes clear how crucial it was for women to be educated in a university setting. College degrees allowed women to enter professions previously barred to them and, as a result, become financially independent of their fathers and husbands and gain a measure of control over their own lives. Woolf’s less well-known but equally powerful treatise from 1939, Three Guineas, considers the impact of this development on social institutions and practices, including the relations between women and men.

The second crucial development, beginning in the late nineteenth century, was the invention of labor-saving devices such as washing machines and dryers, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners, followed in the second half of the twentieth century by computers and, later still, electronic assistants capable of ordering goods online to be delivered to your door. The women (or men) in charge of running a household today have far more mechanical and electronic support than ever before.

Ironically, for middle-class Americans today, much of the time freed up by these labor-saving devices has been redirected into “super-parenting”: parents are expected to spend much more time educating, protecting, and developing the skills of their children. Yet one might hope that these patterns could be more malleable than the punishing work required of our great-grandmothers to maintain a household.

Third is the success of the long struggle for women’s suffrage in many countries early in the twentieth century. Even more than the efforts that opened colleges and universities for women, the suffrage movements were deliberate, well-organized campaigns in which women leaders used their sources of influence strategically to obtain their goals. Enfranchised women could vote for candidates who advocated policies with particular resonance for them, including family- and child-oriented regulations and laws that tackled discriminatory practices in the labor market. Many female citizens voted as their fathers and husbands did; but the possibility of using the ballot box to pursue their priority interests was for the first time available to them. Women could also stand for election and be appointed to government offices. It is important to note, however, that in the United States, the success of the movement was tarnished by the denial of the vote to many Black persons in the South until the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 7

Fourth factor: the easy availability of reliable methods of birth control. Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own gives a vivid portrayal of women in earlier centuries who were hungry for knowledge or professional activity but bore and tended multiple children, making it impossible to find either the time or the opportunity to be educated. In the early twentieth century, there was for the first time widespread public discussion of the methods and moral dimensions of birth control. The opportunity to engage in family planning by controlling the number and timing of births gave women more freedom to engage in other tasks without worrying about unwanted pregnancies. By 1960, when “the pill” became the birth control device of choice for millions of women, the battle for legal contraception had largely been won in most of the world.

Next is women’s liberation, the “second wave” of feminism from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. This multifaceted movement encouraged countless women to reenvision their options and led to important changes in attitudes, behavior, and legal systems. The ideas of the movement were originally developed by women in Western Europe and the United States, but the implications were felt worldwide, and women in many other countries provided examples of feminist ideas and activities.

Among the most important by-products of the feminist movement in the United States was Title IX, passed as part of the Education Amendments Act in 1972. New opportunities for women in athletics and in combatting job discrimination followed the passage of this bill. There is ample evidence that participating in sports strengthens a girl’s self-confidence as well as her physical capacity. 8 And although the Equal Rights Amendment has not passed, the broadened application of the Fourteenth Amendment by federal courts made a significant difference in opening up equal opportunities for women.

A fifth factor contributing to greater scope for women’s activities is the change in economic patterns–contemporary capitalism–in which many families feel that they need two incomes to maintain themselves or achieve the lifestyle they covet. This puts more women in the workforce and thus on a potential ladder to leadership, despite remaining biases against women in jobs as varied as construction, teaching economics in a university, representing clients in major trials, and fighting forest fires.

Finally, the change in social expectations that is the cumulative result of all these developments, so that for the first time in history, in many parts of the world, it seems “natural” that a woman might be ambitious for a major leadership post and that with the right combination of talent, experience, and luck, she might actually get it. The more often it happens, the more likely it is that others will be inspired to follow that example, whereas in the past, it would never have occurred to a young girl that she might someday be CEO of a company, head of a major NGO, member of Congress, dean of a cathedral, or president of a university.

If you simply project forward the trajectory we have seen since the 1960s, you might assume that the future will be one in which all top leadership posts finally become gender-neutral, as often held by women as by men. The last bastions will fall, and it will be just as likely that the CEO of a company or the president of the country will be a woman as a man; the same will be true of other forms of leadership.

Sometimes we act as though this is the obvious path ahead, and the only question is how long it will take. On this point, the evidence is discouraging. The Gender Parity Project of the World Economic Forum predicted in 2015 that “if you were born today, you would be 118 years old when the economic gender gap is predicted to close in 2133.” 9  The report also notes that although gender parity around the world has dramatically improved in the areas of health and education, “only about 60% of the economic participation gap and only 21% of the political empowerment gap have been closed.”

Yet however glacial the rate of change, we may think: “we’ll get there eventually, because that’s where things are moving.” You might call this path convergence toward parity between men and women as leaders. This is the scenario that appears to underlie much of our current thinking, even if we have not articulated it as such.

This scenario, however, ignores some formidable barriers that women ambitious for formal leadership still face. Several familiar images or metaphors have been coined to make this point: “glass ceiling” or “leaky pipeline.” In Through the Labyrinth , sociologists Alice Eagly and Linda Carli use the ancient female image of the “labyrinth” to describe the multiple obstacles women face on the path to top leadership. It’s surely not a straight path toward eventual convergence. 10

The first and most fundamental obstacle to achieving top leadership in any field is that women in almost all societies still have primary (if not sole) responsibility for childcare and homemaking. Few organizations (or nation-states) have workplace policies that support family-friendly lifestyles, including high-quality, reliable, affordable childcare; flexible work schedules while children are young; and support for anyone caring for a sick child or aging parent. This makes things very hard for working parents, and especially for working mothers.

The unyielding expectation that one must show one’s seriousness about a job by being available to work nine- or ten-hour days, being on-call at any time of the week, and ready to move the family to wherever one’s services are needed is a tremendous obstacle to the advancement of women. Although hours worked are correlated with productivity in some jobs and professions, the situation is far more complicated than such a simple metric would indicate. Nonetheless, this measure is often used for promotion and job opportunities, explicitly or in a more subtle fashion. This expectation cuts heavily against a working mother, or a father who might want to spend significant time with his young children.

One of the most stubborn obstacles in the labyrinth is the lack of “on-ramps”: that is, pathways for women (or men) who have “stopped out” to manage a household and raise their children to rejoin their professions at a level commensurate with their talent and past experience. 11 Choices made when one’s children are born are likely to define the available options for a mother for the rest of her life, in terms of professional opportunities and salary level. We need more flexible pathways through the labyrinth so that women (or men) can–if they wish–spend more time with their kids in their earliest years and still get back on the fast track and catch up.

We need to work toward a world in which marriage with children more often involves parenting and homemaking by both partners, so that all the burden does not fall on the mother. We urgently need more easily available high-quality childcare outside the home so that working parents can be assured that their kids are well cared for while they both work full time. Reaching this goal will require more deliberate action on the part of governments, businesses, and policy-makers to create family-friendly workplaces. Such policies are in place in several European countries but have not so far been implemented in the United States. 12

Other labyrinthine obstacles include gender stereotypes that keep getting in the way of women being judged simply on their own accomplishment. Women are supposed to be nurturing, but if you are kind and sensitive, somebody will say you are not tough enough to make hard decisions; if you show that you are up to such challenges, you may be described as “shrill” or “bitchy.” This “catch-22” clearly plagued Hillary Rodham Clinton in her first campaign for the presidency and took an even more virulent form in her second campaign, when her opponent in the general election and his supporters regularly shouted profoundly misogynistic comments at her.

Women also have fewer opportunities to be mentored. Many (not all) senior women are happy to mentor other women; but if there aren’t any senior women around, and the men aren’t sympathetic, you don’t get this support. Some senior male professors or corporate leaders do try specifically to advance the careers of young women, but many male bosses find it easier to mentor young men, seeing them as younger versions of themselves; they take them out for a beer or a round of golf, and find it hard to imagine doing this for young women.

The #MeToo movement has brought valuable support to many women unwilling to speak out about sexual assault and harassment in the workplace. This is surely a significant step in removing obstacles to women’s advancement. However, this very visible effort has also made some male bosses nervous about reaching out to female subordinates in ways that might be misinterpreted. Men who are already deeply committed to advancing the cause of women do not usually react this way, but those who are less committed may use the #MeToo movement as an excuse not to support women employees, or more often, be genuinely uncertain about which boundaries are inappropriate to cross.

Another insidious obstacle for women on the path to top leadership is popular culture, a formidable force in shaping expectations for young people. Contemporary media rarely suggest a high-powered career as an appropriate ambition for a person of the female sex. The ambitions of girls and women are discouraged when they are taught to be deferential to males and not to compete with them for resources, including power and recognition. Women internalize these expectations, which leads us to question our own abilities. Women are much less likely to put themselves forward for a promotion, a fellowship, or a demanding assignment than men even when they are objectively more qualified in terms of their credentials. 13

And finally, in terms of obstacles to women’s out-front leadership, I have so far been describing the situation in Western democracies. As we know, women who might want to be involved in political activity or provide leadership in any institution face even more formidable obstacles in many parts of the world today. Think of Afghanistan, where the Taliban have denied women education or any opportunities outside the home. For young women in such settings, achieving professional status and leadership is a very distant dream.

For all of these reasons, therefore–expectations of primary responsibility for domestic duties, absence of “on-ramps” for returning to the workforce, gender stereotypes, absence of mentors, the power of popular culture, if not systematic exclusion from political activity–women ambitious for out-front leadership must deal with significant barriers that do not confront their male peers.

Addressing the topic of women’s leadership in terms of the obstacles we face makes sense, however, only if significant numbers of women are ambitious for top leadership. In an essay entitled “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby–and You’ve Got Miles to Go,” leadership scholar Barbara Kellerman asks us to consider the possibility that most women really do not want such jobs. As she put it, “Work at the top of the greasy pole takes time, saps energy, and is usually all-consuming.” So “maybe the trade-offs high positions entail are ones that many women do not want to make.” Maybe, in other words, there are fewer women senators or CEOs because women “do not want what men have.” 14

If Kellerman is right, as women see what such positions entail, fewer will decide that high-profile leadership is where our ambitions lie, and the numbers of women in such posts will recede from the high-water mark of the late twentieth century toward something more like the world before 1950. Women have proved that we can do it, in terms of high-powered, visible leadership posts. We have seen the promised land, and many women will decide they are happier where most women traditionally have been.

We found something of this kind in a Princeton study on the fortieth anniversary of the university’s decision to include women as undergraduates. President Shirley Tilghman charged a Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, which issued its report in March 2011, with determining “whether women undergraduates are realizing their academic potential and seeking opportunities for leadership at the same rate and in the same manner as their male colleagues.” 15 In a nutshell, the answer was no: women were not seeking leadership opportunities at the same rate or in the same manner.

Many recent Princeton alumnae and current female students the committee surveyed or interviewed in 2010 were not interested in holding very visible leadership positions like student government president or editor of the Princetonian ; they were more comfortable leading behind the scenes, as vice president or treasurer. There had not been a female president of the student government or of the first-year class at Princeton in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Other young women told us that they were not interested in the traditional student government organizations and instead wanted to lead in an organization that would focus on something they cared about, working for a cause: the environment, education reform, tutoring at Princeton, or a dance club or an a cappella group.

When we asked young women about this, they told us that they preferred to put their efforts where they could have an impact, in places where they could actually get the work of the organization done, rather than advancing their own resumés or having a big title. In this, they gave different answers than many of their male peers. Their attitudes also differed markedly from those of the alumnae who first made Princeton coeducational forty years before. Those women in the 1970s or 1980s were feisty pioneers determined to prove that they belonged at Princeton against considerable skepticism and opposition. They showed very different aspirations than the female students of the first decade of the twentieth century and occupied all the major leadership posts on campus on a regular basis.

Thus, our committee discovered (to quote our first general finding): “There are differences–subtle but real–between the ways most Princeton female undergraduates and most male undergraduates approach their college years, and in the ways they navigate Princeton when they arrive.” We found statistically significant differences between the ambitions and comfort-levels of undergraduate men and women at Princeton in 2010, in terms of the types of leadership that appealed to them and the ways they thought about power.

If you project forward our Princeton findings, and if Barbara Kellerman and others who share her assumptions are correct, there is no reason to believe that women and men will converge in terms of types of leadership. You might instead predict that these differential ambitions will mean that women will always choose and occupy less prominent leadership posts than men, even as they make a significant difference behind the scenes.

However, this conclusion is at odds with the way things are changing today, at Princeton and elsewhere. In addition to hearing from women who preferred low-key posts, our committee learned that women who did consider running for an office like president of college government often got the message from their peers (mostly their male peers) that such posts are more appropriately sought by men. As the discussion of women’s leadership intensifies on campus, more women stand for offices they might not have considered relevant before. Quite a few women have held top positions on campus in the past decade.

The Princeton women tell us that mentoring is very important and being encouraged to compete for a post makes a big difference. When someone–an older student, a friend or colleague, a faculty or staff member–says to a young woman: “You really ought to run for this office, you’d be really good at this,” she is much more likely to decide to be a candidate. There is a good deal of evidence that this is true far beyond the Princeton campus, including the experiences of women who decide to run for political office or state their interest in a top corporate post. 16

Therefore, to those who assert that there is a “natural” difference in motivation that explains the disparities between men and women in leadership, I would respond that we cannot know whether this is true until more women are encouraged to take on positions of leadership. We cannot determine, also, whether women are “naturally” interested in top leadership posts until women everywhere can attain such positions without making personal and family sacrifices radically disproportionate to those faced by men.

In asking what drove the dramatic change in women’s opportunities for leadership over the past half-century, I mentioned as one factor the strength of second-wave feminism. From the point of view of women and leadership, it is ironic that this movement was firmly and explicitly opposed to having any individual speak for and make decisions for other members. The cherished practice was “consciousness-raising,” with a focus on group-enabled insights. The search for consensus and common views was a significant feature of any activity projected by feminist groups in this period.

Second-wave feminism led to some significant advances for women, but the rejection of any out-front leadership meant that the gains were more limited than some members of the movement had envisioned. As was the case with Occupy Wall Street in the twenty-first century, the rejection of visible public leadership constrained the development and implementation of policy, despite the passion and commitment displayed by thousands of participants. The antipathy of second-wave feminists to power, authority, and leadership also means that it is hard to envision a feminist conception of leadership without coming to terms with this legacy.

This tension between “feminism” and “power” long predates the second wave. As women from Mary Wollstonecraft onward have attempted to understand disparities between the situation of women and men, the power held by men–in the state, the economy, and the household–has been a central part of the explanation. Feminists have often identified power with patriarchy, and therefore seen power as antipathetic to their interests as women striving to flourish as independent, creative human beings, rather than as a possible tool for change.

As a result of this age-old linkage of power with patriarchy, one further step in the decades-long progression of women from subordinate positions to positions of authority and leadership is a reconstruction of what it means to provide leadership and hold power. These activities must be detached from their fundamental connection to patriarchy, to make them more compatible with womanhood. There is evidence that this is happening today, as more and more women see power as relevant for accomplishing their goals and are increasingly willing to be seen wielding it with determination and even relish.

Many women today, in multiple contexts and in different parts of the world, are becoming more comfortable with exercising authority and holding power, and are openly ambitious to do so. These leaders see no need to deny or worry about their femininity, but instead concentrate on gaining power and getting things done. For these women, to a large extent, their sex/gender is not a relevant variable.

However, the other side of the equation–men and other women becoming comfortable with women in power and seeing their sex/gender as irrelevant–is lagging behind. Women are ready to take on significant public leadership positions in ways that have never been true before. But what about their potential followers? Large numbers of citizens in many countries and employees in many organizations–men and women–may still be reluctant to accept women as leaders who hold significant power over their lives.

This fluid situation calls both for creative feminist theorizing and for consolidating steps that are already being taken in practice. One of the most effective ways to provide the groundwork for this next stage of development is for more and more women to step forward for leadership posts. As with other profound social changes, including a broader acceptance of homosexuality and support for gay marriage, observing numerous instances of the phenomenon that initially appears “unnatural” can lead, over a remarkably short period of time, to changes in values and beliefs.

People who discover that valued friends, coworkers, or family members are gay are often likely to change their views on homosexuality. The same, one might hypothesize, will be true with women in power, as powerful women become a “normal” part of governments and corporations. The more women we see in positions of power and authority, the more “natural” it will seem for women to hold such posts.

In the final section of the Princeton report, we spoke of a world in which both women and men take on all kinds of leadership posts, out front and behind the scenes, high profile and supportive. This is neither convergence toward parity nor differential ambitions: it is a change in patterns of leadership and in the understanding of what posts are worth striving for, for both women and men.

Some of the Princeton students who argued for the importance of working for a cause saw themselves as carving out a new model of leadership. They rejected the unspoken assumption behind our study that the (only) form of leadership that really counts is being head of student government or president of your class. In doing this, they were reflecting some of the values of second-wave feminism, even when they were not aware of this influence. Believing that a visible leadership post, with a big title and a corner office, is the only type of leadership worth aspiring to is the kind of conception that second-wave feminism was determined to undermine.

Nonetheless, it remains true–and important–that the out-front, high-profile offices in the major organizations and institutions of a society come with exceptional opportunities to influence the course of events and the directions taken by large communities. Even as we value work done behind the scenes and in support of a worthy cause, we should not forget that the leaders who have the most power and the greatest degree of authority in any society are the ones who can make the most substantial difference in the world. Such posts should no longer be disproportionately held by men.

In the conclusion of her feminist classic The Second Sex , published in 1949, Simone de Beauvoir reminds us that it is very hard to anticipate clearly things we have not yet seen, and that in trying to do this, we often impoverish the world ahead. As she puts it, “Let us not forget that our lack of imagination always depopulates the future.” 17 In her chapter on “The Independent Woman,” she writes:

The free woman is just being born. . . . Her “worlds of ideas” are not necessarily different from men’s, because she will free herself by assimilating them; to know how singular she will remain and how important these singularities will be, one would have to make some foolhardy predictions. What is beyond doubt is that until now women’s possibilities have been stifled and lost to humanity, and in her and everyone’s interest it is high time she be left to take her own chances. 18

Because several generations of women and men have worked hard since 1949 to make the path easier for women, our possibilities as leaders are no longer “lost to humanity.” But these gifts are still stifled to some extent, and we are still operating with models of leadership designed primarily by and for men. It is surely high time we as women–with support from our partners, our families, our colleagues, from the political system, and from society as a whole–take our own chances.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

For helpful comments, I am much indebted to Robert O. Keohane, Shirley Tilghman, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, and Dara Strolovich; to the participants in our authors’ conference in April 2019; and to students and colleagues who raised thoughtful questions after the Albright Lecture at Wellesley College in January 2014 and the Astor Lecture at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, in March 2016.

• 1 Nannerl O. Keohane, Thinking about Leadership (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2010), 23.
• 2 Robert Dahl, “The Concept of Power,” Behavioral Science 2 (3) (1957): 202.
• 3 John W. Gardner, On Leadership (New York: Free Press, 1990), 2.
• 4 A. W. Geiger and Lauren Kent, “ Number of Women Leaders around the World Has Grown, but They’re Still a Small Group ,” Fact Tank, Pew Research Center, March 8, 2017.
• 5 Maya Salam, “ A Record 117 Women Won Office, Reshaping America’s Leadership ,” The New York Times , November 7, 2018.
• 6 Center for American Women and Politics, “By the Numbers: Women Congressional Candidates in 2018,” September 12, 2018.
• 7 On this topic, see Nannerl O. Keohane and Frances McCall Rosenbluth, “Introduction,” Dædalus 149 (1) (Winter 2020).
• 8 Anne Bowker, “The Relationship between Sports Participation and Self-Esteem During Early Adolescence,” Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science 38 (3) (2006): 214–229.
• 9 World Economic Forum, “ Gender Parity .”
• 10 Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli. Through the Labyrinth: The Truth about How Women Become Leaders (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007).
• 11 Sylvia Ann Hewlett, “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Women’s Non-Linear Career Paths,” in Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change , ed. Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode (San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2007), 407–430.
• 12 Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn, “Female Labor Supply: Why Is the United States Falling Behind?” The American Economic Review 103 (3) (2013): 251–256.
• 13 Institute of Leadership and Management, “ Ambition and Gender at Work ” (London: Institute of Leadership and Management, 2010).
• 14 Barbara Kellerman, “You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby–and You’ve Got Miles to Go,” in The Difference “Difference” Makes , ed. Deborah Rhode (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002), 55.
• 15 Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership, Report of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University, 2011).
• 16 Richard Fox and Jennifer Lawless, “Uncovering the Origins of the Gender Gap in Political Ambitions,” American Political Science Review 108 (3) (2014): 499–519; and Jennifer Lawless and Richard Fox, It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don’t Run for Office (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
• 17 Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, trans. and ed. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (New York: Random House, 2011), 765.
• 18 Ibid., 751.

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In college, there are many instances where you may be required to write a 250-word essay – your application, exam questions, small writing prompts, etc. A 250-word limit may seem like a novel to some, but others find it difficult to get their point across with so few words. In this guide, we will look at a 250-word essay example, along with tips on how to write a great 250-word essay.   Bonus: Need to write a longer essay? See this guide on how to write a 500-word essay

The Basic Format of a 250-Word Essay

All essays consist of the same three parts: an introduction with a thesis, a body paragraph or body paragraphs that support the thesis, and a concluding paragraph that summarizes the overall essay.

In 250 words, you will most likely have 3-4 paragraphs in total, each with 50-100 words. This will allow for 3-5 concise but detailed sentences per paragraph.

A Step-by-Step 250-Word Essay Example

To help visualize this process, let’s go ahead and write a simple 250-word essay.  You’ll see our writing sample in green and our explanation of what we did (and what can be done) with each section in normal text.

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Without further ado, let’s get started on our essay!

TOPIC:  How has your family upbringing influenced your educational goals?

Step 1 – Write Your Thesis

Your thesis is the first thing you should consider in your essay. Simply put, it’s the main idea of your essay that will control everything else you write. If you could summarize the question in just one sentence, how would you do it?

For our topic   How has your family upbringing influenced your educational goals?  our thesis will be:

My parents saw little value in a formal education. It was their lack of passion that led me to my educational goals.

Step 2 – Write Your Introduction

In the introduction, the first sentence can be a broad or general statement that sets the tone for the piece. It is usually supported by a second sentence that leads into the thesis. The optional third sentence may pose a question that the thesis aims to answer, or it may prompt the reader to think about the topic in a different light. The final sentence of the intro paragraph clearly establishes the thesis.

As a general rule of thumb, the introduction should go from broad to specific, sentence by sentence, gradually leading up to your thesis. Here’s a sample example of an introductory paragraph.

Parents are supposed to push you past your goals, or at least, that’s what I always believed. I was raised in the generation of “you can do anything if you put your mind to it.” My parents did not follow that philosophy, and they saw little value in a formal education. It was their lack of passion that led me to my educational goals.

Word count:  Introductory paragraph, 64 words.

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Step 3 – Write The Body Paragraph(s)

Next, we’ll continue with the body paragraph. Remember, body paragraphs should support the thesis and be about 3-5 sentences or 50-100 words long. In a short essay you may opt for only one body paragraph but in a longer one you may need more.

So how should your body paragraphs support your thesis? Think of each body paragraph as an argument that supports it.

Working with our thesis   “My parents never saw the value of formal education and that’s what lead me to my educational goals” , then each paragraph could be about   how not seeing the value of formal education led to the writer pursuing it.

For example, maybe the writer didn’t want to end up in the same work as their parents. Or maybe it was the parents’ lack of belief in the writer that pushed them to pursue a better future.

Let’s have a look at what a body paragraph can look like for our 250 word essay.

From as far back as I can remember, I knew I didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of my parents, at least not when it came to work. My father had worked on the family farm all his life and my mother had been a housewife since graduation. They were both content with the simplicity of their lives and wanted the same for me. I remember my father telling me that college was “expensive and a waste of four years”.  I knew however, that I wanted a career in the city that would be more challenging than simple farm life could provide. The only way to make that possible would be through formal education and a college degree. 

Word count:  Body paragraph 119 words. Total essay is now 181 words.

Step 4 – Summarize with a Conclusion

The final paragraph is the conclusion. You may start this paragraph with “To summarize,” “As evident by X, Y, and Z,”  or a similar statement that highlights the biggest points in your essay. Use the conclusion paragraph to sum up the main point of your essay using different words. The last sentence can be something broad that leaves the reader wondering. Let’s see how we can write a conclusion for our sample essay.

While my parents may not understand the value of formal education, I know it is essential for my future. This has helped me immensely, by making me realize that without strong parental support, I’m the only one who’s responsible for my own goals. In a way this has been the strongest source of motivation. And for that, I am forever grateful.  

Notice how we summarize the main point of the essay in the first sentence. We then connect the first sentence to the a conclusion we arrive at. Finally we end in an optimistic tone by stating how this has been helpful and we are grateful. Unlike the introduction paragraph, which flows from broad sentences to specific, a conclusion generally flows the opposite way, from specific sentences to broader concepts.

Word count: Concluding paragraph 61 words. Total essay is now 242 words. 

Sure, we came up 8 words short. But being that close should not be considered an issue. If for some reason you are required to write 250 words minimum, you can make the essay longer by sprinkling in a few extra words.

The Entire 250-word Essay  Altogether

Parents are supposed to push you past your goals, or at least, that’s what I always believed. I was raised in the generation of “you can do anything if you put your mind to it.” My parents did not follow that philosophy, and they saw little value in a formal education. It was their lack of passion that led me to my educational goals. From as far back as I can remember, I knew I didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of my parents, at least not when it came to work. My father had worked on the family farm all his life and my mother had been a housewife since graduation. They were both content with the simplicity of their lives and wanted the same for me. I remember my father telling me that college was “expensive and a waste of four years”.  I knew however, that I wanted a career in the city that would be more challenging than simple farm life could provide. The only way to make that possible would be through formal education and a college degree.  While my parents may not understand the value of formal education, I know it is essential for my future. This has helped me immensely by making me realize that without strong parental support, I’m the only one who’s responsible for my own goals. In a way this has been the strongest source of motivation. And for that, I am forever grateful.  

Should I Write More Than 250 Words or Less Than 250 Words?

When a professor or college entry application asks for a “250 word essay,” 250 words is generally a rough guide. No one is going to fail you if you go over or under the limit by a few words. We’d say a good gauge is plus or minus 50 words. As a general rule of thumb though, try to stay as close to 250 words as possible without going too far over or under.

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Here are some quick tips for writing a great 250-word essay:

• Write the first draft from start to finish without any pauses. This will make the writing sound fluid, and you can make adjustments after that.
• Avoid over-editing your work. Ideally, you should take a long pause between editing sessions so you can clear your head and come back with a fresh perspective.
• Try not to think about the word count too much. Once you get in the habit of writing four 3-5 sentence paragraphs, you’ll find your words naturally get close to 250.
• Don’t throw fluff sentences in your essay. Professors see right through those. Instead, think of an additional sentence to enhance the support in your body paragraphs.
• If you feel like you have concisely and sufficiently answered the question below the word count, trust your gut. Most instructors will value quality over quantity.

The more 250-word essays you write, the easier they will become. Feel free to practice with free essay prompts online to train your brain to write with this rhythm. You’ll soon be able to whip out 250 words without checking your word count!

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Essay on Gender Equality And Women’s Empowerment

Students are often asked to write an essay on Gender Equality And Women’s Empowerment in their schools and colleges. And if you’re also looking for the same, we have created 100-word, 250-word, and 500-word essays on the topic.

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100 Words Essay on Gender Equality And Women’s Empowerment

Understanding gender equality.

Gender equality means that men and women have the same rights and opportunities. It’s like having two different types of fruits, say an apple and an orange, and giving them the same amount of care, sunlight, and water to grow. No one is better than the other; they are just different but equally important.

What is Women’s Empowerment?

Women’s empowerment is about making sure women can make their own choices in life. It’s like teaching someone to ride a bike. Once they learn, they can go anywhere they want, do things on their own, and feel strong.

Education and Jobs

For true gender equality, both boys and girls should go to school and learn. When they grow up, women should have the same chances to get good jobs as men. Think of it as a game where everyone gets a fair turn to play and show their skills.

Leadership Roles

Women should also be leaders, like being the captain of a team or the president of a club. This shows everyone that girls can lead and make important decisions just as well as boys can.

Equality at Home

250 words essay on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

Gender equality means that men and women have the same rights, responsibilities, and opportunities. It’s like a game where everyone gets a fair chance to play, no matter if they are a boy or a girl. Everyone should be able to go to school, work, and take part in making decisions.

Women’s Empowerment

Women’s empowerment is about giving girls and women the power to make their own choices. It’s like letting them be the captain of their own ship. They can decide what they want to study, where they want to work, and stand up for what they believe is right.

Why It’s Important

When women and men are equal, it’s good for everyone. Women can bring new ideas and skills to the table, which can help solve problems better and make the world a nicer place to live. It’s also fair that everyone gets to chase their dreams and be happy.

Challenges to Overcome

Sadly, not all places have gender equality. Some girls are kept from going to school, and some women are not allowed to work or have to work harder for less money. It’s important to change this so that everyone has the same chances in life.

How to Support Equality

To help, we can make sure that both boys and girls know that they are equal. We can also stand up for our friends if they are being treated unfairly. By working together, we can build a world where everyone is respected and can live the life they choose.

500 Words Essay on Gender Equality And Women’s Empowerment

Women’s empowerment is about giving girls and women the power to make choices for themselves. It’s like letting them decide what clothes to wear or what games to play, instead of someone else telling them what to do. Empowerment helps women to speak up, get a good education, and find jobs that they want to do.

Why Gender Equality is Important

When girls and boys, or women and men, are treated equally, it’s good for everyone. It’s like a team game where every player gets a fair chance to play, making the team stronger. Countries with gender equality are usually happier and wealthier because everyone can work, create new things, and help make decisions.

Challenges in Achieving Gender Equality

Education and gender equality.

Education is a powerful tool for gender equality. When girls go to school and learn just like boys, they can get better jobs and make better choices for their lives. It’s like giving them a key to a big door that leads to a world of opportunities.

Women in Leadership

Having more women in leadership roles is also important for gender equality. Leaders make big decisions that affect everyone. When women are leaders, they can make sure that the needs and ideas of both women and men are included. It’s like making sure that both sides of a story are heard before deciding what to do.

How to Support Gender Equality

In the end, gender equality and women’s empowerment are about making sure that everyone, no matter if they are a boy or a girl, has the same chances in life. It’s like a game where the rules are fair for all players, and everyone can win. When we work together to treat everyone equally, we make the world a better place for everyone.

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Be the Heroine of Your Life, Not the Victim.- Nora Ephron

The word ‘Women Empowerment’ itself implies that women are not powerful enough - they need to be empowered. This painful truth has been in existence for a long long time. It is in recent years that noticeable work started beginning to lift women out of the abyss of insignificance and powerlessness. The patriarchal society suppressed women’s freedom across the world. Women were not allowed to vote or even put forward any opinion. Women were confined to their homes. As time progressed, they realised that their life meant much more than just serving in the household. As more and more women started crossing the man-made barriers, the world began to witness the rise of women. Unlike men, women never try to stifle the voice of their opposite gender. They hold the hands of all the downtrodden people - men and women both - and they pull them out of misfortune as they try to improve their lives.

The History of Women Empowerment 

The history of women empowerment does not start from an exact date, It is a cumulative process. However, there are certain movements, protests, revolutions that furthered the cause of women empowerment much more speedily.

In the ancient days and even in the recent past, women, in hundreds of countries, were not allowed to vote. As time passed, more and more women came together and made their voices heard. Gaining voting rights significantly lifted the position of women in society. Many suffrage movements campaigned daily in support of women's voting rights. In the US, individuals like Elizabeth Stanton and organisations like National American Woman Suffrage Association, National Woman’s Party played a key role in securing the voting rights for women. In the UK, the Women's Social and Political Union aggressively campaigned for women’s suffrage. It is a shame for society at large when we consider that many countries granted women the right to vote after a very long time. Kuwait, Qatar, Zaire, Bahrain, Andorra, Central African Republic etc granted women the right to vote after the second half of the 20th century.

No woman can be empowered if she is not financially independent. Gone are the days when women had to depend on their fathers or husbands to get things that they wanted. From the 20th century onwards women got more opportunities to join the workforce. However, at the same time, many women in England were forced to work both in the workplace and in the household to support the family. After the Second World War women, on their own, chose to join the workforce. Today more and more jobs are opening up for women. Women are proving to be worthy of the designations assigned to them.

In the household, too, women have gained significant decision-making powers. The decision to have a baby or not is now decided by both men and women. The use of contraceptive pills empowered women further. Women can now enjoy unhindered work life and education.

Women empowerment cannot be successful if the women in the lower rung of the society are not empowered. After the onset of the 21st century, women belonging to the grassroots level have found many vocational works, labours that were only reserved for men. Today there are many female masons, bus drivers, petrol pump attendants, farmers etc. And all these women are doing their job extremely well.

Women Empowerment in India

Women empowerment in India cannot be compared with that in other countries. Women were highly respected in the Vedic ages. The focus on women’s education was never absent. The word ‘sahadharmini’ was known from the Vedic days. Sahadharmini means - equal partner. It is thus very clear that women in India in ancient days enjoyed respect, education and reverence.

As time passed the Indian culture was contaminated with the conservative Middle Eastern and British culture. As a result, the power and respect that women enjoyed were lost.

Gradually after independence, women started regaining the lost power. Today women are everywhere. The country saw its female Prime Minister and President, the country has many eminent female sportspeople like Saina Nehwal or P.T Usha, the country has been blessed with talented women scientists like A. Chatterjee or B Vijayalakshmi. Women are joining the combat forces in India without any hesitation. 

However, many women in India are still finding it hard to come out of the clutches of patriarchy - particularly in the rural sector. The empowered women must urge these women to raise voices, protest and seek help from the authorities.

Inequality and the Way Forward

Today, more than ever, women are enjoying freedom. They can decide on their own. However, there is a long way to go. Women must protest against the use of religion to suppress them. Not all military positions are open to females. There is a wage gap in the film industry, in sports and normal jobs. The women need to use their hard-earned power to banish all the injustices that they have been facing for time immemorial.

The term women empowerment refers to gender equality. It especially favours women rights. 

Women empowerment all refer to the empowerment of women to take all decisions from their choice. So that she can take all of the decisions for her social and economic development. Empowerment of women will surely encourage all of the women to stand for their education and the life of their own choice. The women empowerment mission encourages women to be self-reliant. So that she can have positive self-esteem and generate potential in herself to compete with the world and to make the position of her choice. This is only possible if equal opportunities in society will also be available for women. Empowering women would mean encouraging them for their socio-economic development. From ancient times women have suffered a lot in society. They were not given the equal right to education and to be self-reliant. They were only restricted to household works. They were kept away from education and development. Women constitute half of the population however her contribution to the economy of India is very low. This depicts that there are not equal opportunities available for women in society and the responsibilities which are given to them do not have any contribution to the GDP of the country.

To develop India as a superpower the development of women is equally important and it should be a priority to give her a chance to develop herself. To achieve it we should focus mainly on the education of girls. Moreover, they also get equal pay to the men for equal work.  To empower the women our goals also should be to remove child marriage and the dowry system from the whole nation. The Indian government is also working to make India more suitable for women so they can also get equal opportunities and can grow themselves. In this regard, the supreme court of India also made it mandatory to provide admission to the National defence academy for women. The Indian government also declared that Military schools also will be available for women from now onwards.  A common approach to handle this problem can be a remarkable solution for it.

FAQs on Women Empowerment Essay

1. How can we empower Women?

Boost their self-esteem: Encourage them to achieve something that they want. 

Do not spread negativity: from hundreds of years ago, women empowerment has been a challenge in society due to the negative perception of the public about women empowerment.

Support her independence: It is seen that in society women want to become self-dependent while society does not give its permission to them

 Your support may change the scenario.

2. What is Women Empowerment and what are its methods?

Women empowerment is an ideology on behalf of which we are talking about empowering women.

It can include various methods. We can achieve this goal by:

Economic Empowerment: Economic empowerment involves the empowerment of women using enough resources.

Social Empowerment: Social empowerment involves the empowerment of women providing certain freedom in society.

Political empowerment: Political empowerment involves the empowerment of women by providing them with certain reservations in politics. It will help to speak to them for themselves.

3. What are barriers to Women Empowerment? 

1) cultural norms: As many women consider women empowerment essential. Meanwhile, some of them have also considered discrimination as a cultural norm. Sometimes men also feel hesitant to speak against their culture for her.

2) Dowry:   Dowry is also one of the biggest barriers in the society of women empowerment. Dowry custom had made women a weight on the family. It is also one of the main factors of violence against women.

3) Sexual Harassment: Harassment is a big obstacle in achieving the goal of women empowerment. As it affects the women mentally and physically.

4. Why is Women Empowerment necessary in India?

In India, women constitute 48.5% of the total population of India According to the 2011 census. However, its contribution to the national GDP is very low.  The percentage of women labour in rural areas has decreased from 26% to 25%. The literacy rate of women in 2011 became 65% which was 57% in 2001. Indian govt. Is also working for it continuously. The distribution of bicycles for girls and reservations to them in various fields is making them more self-dependent.

Recently, India has also accepted girls in the defence forces.

5. Name some of the Government schemes for women empowerment in India?

The women empowerment Schemes in India are :

Beti Bachao , Beti Padhao

One-stop centre scheme

Women Helpline scheme

Working women hostel

Swadhar Greh

Nari Shakti Puraskar

Mahila Shakti kendras( MSKk)

Mahila Police Volunteers

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Sample 250-Word Essay to Write Your Own Perfectly + 5 Instructions to Do It

The range of academic assignments varies from qualitative and quantitative essays to analytical research papers, from movie and literature reviews to scientific dissertations. Apart from the differences concerning the focus of writing, academic papers have a different word count. The common approach to the minimal length of any academic writing involves a one-page work which includes about 250 words. As for the structure, a 250-word essay consists of an introduction with a thesis statement, two-paragraph body beginning with a topic sentence, and ends with a conclusion.

Sounds simple? Don’t rush to say, “Pffft! I manage to write essays with a word count more than 250 words.” But what about wide-ranging topics? Such broad issues are presented in this guide – “Mass Media and Technology”. Let’s find out what can help you write a 250-word essay. Follow our 5 instructions to do it successfully.

5 Instructions to Start Writing 250-word Essays Perfectly

• Set the aim. Primarily, the main aim you should achieve in your essay is to come into a clear focus on the topic with a few reasons backed up by reliable supporting details. However, there are other additional purposes of essay writing – to explain, describe, compare, persuade, and so on. What is yours? Look at your assignment and point out the keywords. After that, it will be easier to set the aims and objectives of your writing and stick to them during the writing process. Remember, you have only 250 words to meet the main purpose of the essay.
• Brainstorm some original ideas. Today, interesting essay ideas are found actually anywhere – in news, newspapers or magazines, on TV or the Internet. Check out the headlines currently appearing in your news feed. Starting out from this point, you have more chances to find the less-investigated aspects of the topic as you know what is being explored and what isn’t. Keep your pen or phone within the reach (the latter is always at hand, right?). Sometimes, interesting ideas are coming accidentally – in a bus or in a class. Write down all of them to return every time you are assigned to an essay.

• Deal with the parts of an essay – an introduction, body, and conclusion. Each part plays a specific role for your reader. In the introduction, he/she wants to know what an essay is about. In the body, they expect to see all the details that are included in a well-structured manner. What does “well-structured” mean? Your essay has the logical flow of thoughts connected with the help of some transitional words and phrases . At the close, your readers need to know why they read your essay. Sum up all the ideas with a logical conclusion to the essay question.
• Stick to the basic essay writing format. What does it involve? A basic essay format includes a structure (that is introduced to you previously) and an academic style . All that helps to achieve unity and coherence of the text and enhance the reader’s understanding. Besides, you may need to follow the APA, MLA, Harvard, or Chicago format guidelines when using in-text citations and working on a ‘Works Cited’, ‘References’ or ‘Bibliography’ page. It allows you to give credit to your essay. Don’t miss this opportunity!

Sample 250-Word Essay: “Mass Media and Technology”

It is impossible to imagine the modern world without mass media and technology as they have become the essential parts of the every-day life of many people. Consequently, there are positive and negative sides of media and technology, which have to be discussed throughout the 250-word essay example.

Among the main positive effects of mass media is the ability to obtain and share knowledge, develop skills, discover other cultures, and learn some information on how to interact with other people. Indeed, not only entertainment programs take place on the Internet and TV. Different news, culinary, healthy lifestyle, sport, and narrowly-specialized programs can be watched on TV as well as the huge number of information on the diversity of topics can be found on the Internet. However, drawbacks of media outweigh its benefits. The most serious problem of media abuse is the addiction which leads to problems with communication and analytical thinking. Moreover, the idea of privacy is lost in the light of social networks as people may use private information against one another in order to threaten or blackmail colleagues. What is more, social media is full of unnecessary information which lumbers the brain.

To sum up, one has to state that mass media and developing technologies have both, benefits and drawbacks, which influence human lives in many ways. In the case of social media abuse, the disadvantages overwhelm the advantages because the list of positive effects is limited to the idea that social media is a source of information on any needed topic. References:

• Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, R. & Buijzen, M. (2016). Introducing positive media psychology to the field of children, adolescents, and media . Journal Of Children And Media, 10(1), 39-46.
• Healey, J. (2011). Social impacts of digital media. Thirroul, N.S.W.: Spinney Press.
• How to Deal With Negative Media Attention. (2015). Nonprofit Communications Report,13(3), 6-6.
• Noor Al-Deen, H. S., & Hendricks, J. A. (2012). Social Media: Usage and Impact. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Rim, H. & Song, D. (2016). “How Negative Becomes Less Negative”: Understanding the Effects of Comment Valence and Response Sidedness in Social Media. J Commun.

We can be calm when all the essential information on how to write a 250-word essay is given to you. Moreover, you’re equipped with a good example of a 250-word essay to follow it and write your own masterpiece. Take into consideration all the 5 references on the topic if needed. Remember that any good essay writing does not happen by accident. Practice! Practice! And follow our guide!

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5 Women Empowerment Essays Everybody Should Read

What does “women’s empowerment” mean? It refers to the process of giving women control over their choices and access to the opportunities and resources that allow them to thrive. While there’s been progress, gender inequality remains a persistent issue in the world. Empowering women politically, socially, economically, educationally, and psychologically helps narrow the gap. Here are five essays about women’s empowerment that everyone should read:

Women’s Movements and Feminist Activism (2019)

Amanda Gouws & Azille Coetzee

This editorial from the “Empowering women for gender equity” issue of the journal Agenda explores the issue’s themes. It gives a big picture view of the topics within. The issue is dedicated to women’s movements and activism primarily in South Africa, but also other African countries. New women’s movements focus on engaging with institutional policies and running campaigns for more female representation in government. Some barriers make activism work harder, such as resistance from men and funding, If you’re interested in the whole issue, this editorial provides a great summary of the main points, so you can decide if you want to read further.

Agenda is an African peer-viewed academic journal focusing on feminism. It was established in 1987. It publishes articles and other entries, and tutors young writers.

5 Powerful Ways Women Can Empower Other Women (2020)

Pavitra Raja

Originally published during Women’s History Month, this piece explores five initiatives spearheaded by women in the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship community. Created by women for women, these innovations demonstrate what’s possible when women harness their skills and empower each other. The initiatives featured in this article embrace technology, education, training programs, and more.

Pavitra Raja is the Community Manager for social entrepreneurs in Europe, North America, and Latin America. She’s consulted with the UN Economic Commission for Europe and also has experience in legal affairs and policy in the private and public sectors.

The Key to Improving Women’s Health in Developing Countries (2019)

Because of gender inequality, women’s health is affected around the world. Factors like a lower income than men, more responsibilities at home, and less education impact health. This is most clear in developing countries. How can this be addressed? This essay states that empowerment is the key. When giving authority and control over their own lives, women thrive and contribute more to the world. It’s important that programs seeking to end gender inequality focus on empowerment, and not “rescue.” Treating women like victims is not the answer.

Axa is a leading global insurer, covering more than 100 million customers in 57 countries. On their website, they say they strive for the collective good by working on prevention issues, fighting climate change, and prioritizing protection. The company has existed for over 200 years.

Empowering Women Is Smart Economics (2012)

Ana Revenga and Sudhir Shetty

What are the benefits of women’s empowerment? This article presents the argument that closing gender gaps doesn’t only serve women, it’s good for countries as a whole. Gender equality boosts economic productivity, makes institutions more representative, and makes life better for future generations. This piece gives a good overview of the state of the world (the data is a bit old, but things have not changed significantly) and explores policy implications. It’s based on the World Bank’s World Development Report in 2012 on gender equality and development.

Ana Revenga and Sudhir Shetty both worked at the World Bank at the time this article was originally published. Revenga was the Sector Director of Human Development, Europe and Central Asia. Shetty (who still works at the World Bank in a different role) was the Sector Director, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, East Asia and Pacific.

The Side Of Female Empowerment We Aren’t Talking About Enough (2017)

Tamara Schwarting

In this era of female empowerment, women are being told they can do anything, but can they? It isn’t because women aren’t capable. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. As this article says, women have “more to do but no more time to do it.” The pressure is overwhelming. Is the image of a woman who can “do it all” unrealistic? What can a modern woman do to manage a high-stakes life? This essay digs into some solutions, which include examining expectations and doing self-checks.

Tamara Schwarting is the CEO of 1628 LTD, a co-working community space of independent professionals in Ohio. She’s also an executive-level consultant in supply chain purchasing and business processes. She describes herself as an “urbanist” and has a passion for creative, empowering work environments.

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Updated on 13 April, 2023

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You must have come across the IELTS   women empowerment essay 250 words topic. To write an effective essay, you should try to supplement your opinions with instances or examples that foster better understanding as far as the examiner is concerned. Here’s looking at the sample essays in this regard.

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Women empowerment essay sample 1: .

What do we mean by women's empowerment? What is empowerment? While I do not intend to keep asking rhetorical questions, I believe we have missed the term's true meaning. To  empower is to offer  freedom of choice, decision, action, and  responsibility . 

Let me provide an instance to illustrate my meaning better. Suppose a woman wishes to educate herself and study further. She wishes to study a particular subject at the college level. Now, there could be one of two scenarios here. In scenario A, she could apply to the chosen subject at institutions of her liking. In scenario B, her parents, while agreeing to her desire to study further, enrol her into a college and subject that they find  suitable . Which is empowerment in this scenario? It goes without saying that the answer is scenario A. This is because the woman could choose every part of the puzzle without anyone's intervention and take full responsibility for the same. In the second case, while believing they were technically empowering their daughter by ‘allowing’ her to pursue higher education, the parents chose everything on her behalf, tantamount to a violation of personal freedom and liberty at multiple levels. 

Hence, as can be seen, empowering a woman does not equate to only giving her access to the same opportunities. I wish to conclude by stating that  empowerment  does not require ambitious public or private programs and other endeavors. It begins and ends with a simple proposition- Giving a woman the freedom to choose. 

Word Count: 250

Tentative Band Score: 7

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Women Empowerment Essay Sample 2: 

I strongly advocate women's empowerment, especially in today’s modern and elevated times, when breaking the glass ceiling has become imperative. The pitiful ratio of women leaders in corporate and government organizations has been highlighted repeatedly and is only the tip of the iceberg. While we need more women leaders and communities of like-minded women for support and motivation, we also need more reforms and parity on the ground.

Several countries still have high female foeticide levels. Many families still pull their daughters out of educational institutions for varied reasons. Numerous women in the country still do not have the freedom to choose their partner/companion in life. To start with, if we define empowerment for women, it means accepting personal opinions, giving women the liberty to make decisions and choices, and ensuring access to equal education, opportunities, and benefits. It equates to equipping women with the necessary skills and platforms to make their voices count. Women’s empowerment is not only about education but also social, political, and economic empowerment. 

Women’s empowerment can only occur when we create a more enabling and responsive environment where all women can speak out and be heard. We need platforms where they can motivate and inspire other women to make their own decisions to move up in life. The institutions of  community, society, family and the governing authority cannot pick and choose what is best for women. That choice is best left to them and is the most significant form of empowerment in my opinion. 

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