Change the mindset to empower women, says Gul Panag
Bollywood actor Gul Panag addressed our Club on 2nd September during the regular Monday meeting of the Club on ‘Women Empowerment in the 21st Century’ at the Rotary House.
Speaking to Rotarians she emphasized the need to organizations like Rotary to take up the women related social issues to make a difference in their lives.
The change is possible that a relentless efforts need to be made to bring about the positive change in the society that could give equality to women and freedom to pursue their dreams.I was lucky, she said, that I got the parents, and now my husband, who have been completely supporting me in whatever I wanted to do in my life, though not all girls are that lucky.
The mindset needs to be changed though I know, she emphasised it would take years, and decades and may be centuries. The social ills like sati took hundred of years to vanish from India despite the draconic laws that British government tried to enforce to ban this practice.
Though the judicial intervention would be required to bring about the change it is the men and women alike have to raise their voice against women atrocities, she said.
Later PDG Kawal Bedi, another epitome of women empowerment, presented a memento to Gul Panag.
