I was at Salem last week, conducting a program sponsored by Rotary Club, Salem Centennial. Around 150 boys and 200 girls were seated in the audience, all of them 12th standard students. I was speaking to them about three major influences in life and making them map their life with the predominant influence. The topic was very well received. At the end, there were just too many questions and I was enthusiastically answering them amidst bursts of laughter and fresh hands going up with newer questions every passing minute. Since I was exceeding time and there were at least 30 hands up in the air, I finally said, Alright, I will take only two more questions and with that we wind up! As soon as I said this, the girls, who were in a majority, put down their hands immediately with not one girl exerting her right to ask the question. And excepting a couple of boys, almost everyone had their hands even more up, literally jumping out of their chairs, demanding that they be included in the last two. The situation was the same when I conducted another program in Chennai for Chennai Institute of Technology. Why did the girls not fight for their chance? Why in such a supposedly modern society we havent still focused on developing leadership in women? Isnt it high-time that this sub-conscious behavioral pattern of taking a back seat is explored and overcome?
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:37:28 +0000
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