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Single and alone
View(s):In a world dominated by men, it is a daunting task to be a woman trying to make ends meet single handedly.
Whether it be by the roadside or at bus halts, pitiful sad-eyed women or women whose faces have been made hard and grim by unsavoury experiences… form a majority of those begging for a living.
There is something more than heroic in women struggling to survive alone, whether they are begging, or like Gnanawathi in images captured by our cameraman -casting fishing nets and facing off circumstances challenging even to men.
Sadly many single-handed efforts made by women often end in tragedy.
Women enjoying political power are best placed to change this situation. Sri Lanka elected the world’s first woman prime minister in 1960. Unfortunately four decades later we are still struggling to achieve even a semblance of equal representation for women in politics and other spheres in society.
Unfortunately even the few women who have entered the political arena are still grappling under the yoke of male domination.
Women’s interests whether societal or in the political sphere are often underrepresented or inadequate. In order to change this situation personal charisma and political power are necessary, but few of today’s female representative possess these qualities.
Mother and child… young women are often abandoned by their partners.. left to fend for themselves and their offspring
Destitute and sad-eyed she sits daily by the roadside