speech on woman emancipation

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Its been ages that women in general have been suffering from agony, distress, discrimination, apathy.

- Every nation has a story of women discrimination behind it. No doubt, the position and status of the women of today has improved quite significantly, because of reservation for women.

- There is so much dicrimination prevalent that few women are forced to die young, few are killed in their mother's womb, few confined to their homes, and few are forced to sell their skin to earn bread for their family.

- Social norms in India strongly favor men, therefore, reservation for women is expected to create equal opportunity for men and women.

On September 30, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Coca Cola, Muhtar Kent, gave a speech at Yale University Law School called Who Will Drive the 21st Century Agenda? Women. At first glance the speech seemed inspiring and encouraging for women. Kent cites personal inspiration from the women of his life his mother, wife, and daughters and from his father and father in law who fought for womens rights.

And Kent cites his own commitment: as a business leader and someone who has been given the responsibility of creating shareholder value for the world's most recognized brand -- I feel a tremendous sense of urgency in ensuring that conditions are ripe for women to thrive around the world.

Kents speech highlighted the many ways Coca Cola is supporting womens rise to power both in its own walls, through a three-year-old Womens Leadership Council program that creates a womans pipeline to leadership positions and supports flex-work hours for personal sustainability among other things, and through international programs mostly in Africa and other developing nations, that give entrepreneurial support and mentoring to women.

Citing some of the realities we have all come to hear of recently (see WuDunn and Kristoffs Half the Sky) Kent supports the empowerment of women as a means for creating healthier communities. One example he cites along these lines is Coca Colas well drilling in Mali, which frees women (who often spend long amounts of time walking for water) to spend time developing businesses and one such woman developed, not surprisingly, a catering business.

One of Kents most inspiring quotes:

The only way a projected billion people will rise to the middle class in the next 10 years the only way the world will grow $20 trillion dollars richer the only way more nations will rise out of poverty and become more politically stable -- will be by women achieving gender parity on a global scale.

The talk is moving and some of the initiatives are so important who can argue with well-drilling in Mali or providing leadership roles for women in any context?

But this inspiring narrative also has an important subtext that needs to be acknowledged. Most of Coca Colas products are harmful to varying degrees. They are addictive; they contain high amounts of sugar, and those that are diet contain the chemical aspartame, long argued to trigger various health problems from allergies to illnesses including parkinsons disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and diabetes. Aspartime is produced by a Monsanto subsidy and has been banned in a variety of European products, though it has been approved by the FDA here.

Coca Colas products are especially harmful to children, who are not neurologically mature enough use discipline or good judgment in food choices, and to residents of poor neighborhoods where healthy food is less available. Childhood diabetes is one of the most chronic diseases in children and adolescents in the U.S, and often at its worst in lower socio-economic communities. Like other sodas, Coca Cola contributes to obesity, other health problems associated with caffeine and aspartame consumption, and is a major player in food injustice the ways poor communities and even developing nations are inundated with food choices that undermine health.

This subtext of undermining human health is a powerful story. And there is the hidden story of the health of the earth. In the U.S. alone, we use 200 billion plastic bottles a day. Plastic is not the only resource waste in the mix. If it is like most bottle waters, Coca Colas bottled water Dasani uses seven bottles of clean water to produce one saleable bottle.

Illustrative of an appropriate response to these soft drinks, a 2006 ban restricted them from school cafeterias and vending machines, and more recently San Francisco banned them from public vending machines.

Kent uses the word sustainability in his speech five times. But Coca Colas products are not sustainable. They destroy some of our most valuable resources our own health and the health of our planet. They are addictive and destructive.

What does all this subtext have to do with empowering women?

Encouraging women into positions of power in industries that harm children, adults, and the environment is not women's empowerment. Instead, it is an insidious and age-old means for undermining women by cutting them off from their source of real power their own health, health of children, health of the earth.

Its a game the patriarchy has been playing for centuries - providing ways for women to support its own agenda and convincing them they've stepped up in the world. (Remember the Virginia Slims ad campaign convincing women to smoke by telling them, "You've come a long way baby!") Giving opportunities to women desperate to feed their children, or desperate for ways to participate in shaping the world, that do not serve their own wisdom, keeps women essentially powerless.

Women might gain more things, more safety even, more means of expression, which are valuable. But if they are cut off from their instinctual knowledge about how to care for the natural world, how to recognize the sacredness in human beings and the earth, or how to value and respect the hidden ways life creates and nourishes all of us, they are lost to themselves.

Sounds spiritual? Yes, it is. Its also common sense. Coca Colas primary objective is profit. It built its company on sugary soft drinks before we really understood how harmful they are to us and the environment. It is an agenda that cannot transition into a world that is more awake to womens wisdom, which sees, knows, and lives in harmony with lifes forces not against them. Womens power, at its root, supports and protects life, because womens power comes from life. Once a woman understand this, it is extremely difficult to engage in activities that do harm.

The more women join patriarchal projects that do not respect the earth or human health, the more likely they are to cut themselves off from their own power and the power within life. It distracts women from connecting to, serving, and sharing a totally hidden and other form of power one we have, as a patriarchal world, not yet discovered or used.

In his speech, Kent says about supporting womens success in business:

Call it self-interest... or enlightened self-interest -- it really doesn't matter.

Of course it matters. Self-interest or self-described enlightened self-interest when it comes to using women to make money for a company at odds with life is not the same as womens empowerment, quite the opposite.

On September 30, the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Coca Cola, Muhtar Kent, gave a speech at Yale University Law School called Who Will Drive the 21st Century Agenda? Women. At first glance the speech seemed inspiring and encouraging for women. Kent cites personal inspiration from the women of his life his mother, wife, and daughters and from his father and father in law who fought for womens rights.

And Kent cites his own commitment: as a business leader and someone who has been given the responsibility of creating shareholder value for the world's most recognized brand -- I feel a tremendous sense of urgency in ensuring that conditions are ripe for women to thrive around the world.

Kents speech highlighted the many ways Coca Cola is supporting womens rise to power both in its own walls, through a three-year-old Womens Leadership Council program that creates a womans pipeline to leadership positions and supports flex-work hours for personal sustainability among other things, and through international programs mostly in Africa and other developing nations, that give entrepreneurial support and mentoring to women.

Citing some of the realities we have all come to hear of recently (see WuDunn and Kristoffs Half the Sky) Kent supports the empowerment of women as a means for creating healthier communities. One example he cites along these lines is Coca Colas well drilling in Mali, which frees women (who often spend long amounts of time walking for water) to spend time developing businesses and one such woman developed, not surprisingly, a catering business.

One of Kents most inspiring quotes:

The only way a projected billion people will rise to the middle class in the next 10 years the only way the world will grow $20 trillion dollars richer the only way more nations will rise out of poverty and become more politically stable -- will be by women achieving gender parity on a global scale.

The talk is moving and some of the initiatives are so important who can argue with well-drilling in Mali or providing leadership roles for women in any context?

But this inspiring narrative also has an important subtext that needs to be acknowledged. Most of Coca Colas products are harmful to varying degrees. They are addictive; they contain high amounts of sugar, and those that are diet contain the chemical aspartame, long argued to trigger various health problems from allergies to illnesses including parkinsons disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and diabetes. Aspartime is produced by a Monsanto subsidy and has been banned in a variety of European products, though it has been approved by the FDA here.

Coca Colas products are especially harmful to children, who are not neurologically mature enough use discipline or good judgment in food choices, and to residents of poor neighborhoods where healthy food is less available. Childhood diabetes is one of the most chronic diseases in children and adolescents in the U.S, and often at its worst in lower socio-economic communities. Like other sodas, Coca Cola contributes to obesity, other health problems associated with caffeine and aspartame consumption, and is a major player in food injustice the ways poor communities and even developing nations are inundated with food choices that undermine health.

This subtext of undermining human health is a powerful story. And there is the hidden story of the health of the earth. In the U.S. alone, we use 200 billion plastic bottles a day. Plastic is not the only resource waste in the mix. If it is like most bottle waters, Coca Colas bottled water Dasani uses seven bottles of clean water to produce one saleable bottle.

Illustrative of an appropriate response to these soft drinks, a 2006 ban restricted them from school cafeterias and vending machines, and more recently San Francisco banned them from public vending machines.

Kent uses the word sustainability in his speech five times. But Coca Colas products are not sustainable. They destroy some of our most valuable resources our own health and the health of our planet. They are addictive and destructive.

What does all this subtext have to do with empowering women?

Encouraging women into positions of power in industries that harm children, adults, and the environment is not women's empowerment. Instead, it is an insidious and age-old means for undermining women by cutting them off from their source of real power their own health, health of children, health of the earth.

Its a game the patriarchy has been playing for centuries - providing ways for women to support its own agenda and convincing them they've stepped up in the world. (Remember the Virginia Slims ad campaign convincing women to smoke by telling them, "You've come a long way baby!") Giving opportunities to women desperate to feed their children, or desperate for ways to participate in shaping the world, that do not serve their own wisdom, keeps women essentially powerless.

Women might gain more things, more safety even, more means of expression, which are valuable. But if they are cut off from their instinctual knowledge about how to care for the natural world, how to recognize the sacredness in human beings and the earth, or how to value and respect the hidden ways life creates and nourishes all of us, they are lost to themselves.

Sounds spiritual? Yes, it is. Its also common sense. Coca Colas primary objective is profit. It built its company on sugary soft drinks before we really understood how harmful they are to us and the environment. It is an agenda that cannot transition into a world that is more awake to womens wisdom, which sees, knows, and lives in harmony with lifes forces not against them. Womens power, at its root, supports and protects life, because womens power comes from life. Once a woman understand this, it is extremely difficult to engage in activities that do harm.

The more women join patriarchal projects that do not respect the earth or human health, the more likely they are to cut themselves off from their own power and the power within life. It distracts women from connecting to, serving, and sharing a totally hidden and other form of power one we have, as a patriarchal world, not yet discovered or used.

In his speech, Kent says about supporting womens success in business:

Call it self-interest... or enlightened self-interest -- it really doesn't matter.

Of course it matters. Self-interest or self-described enlightened self-interest when it comes to using women to make money for a company at odds with life is not the same as womens empowerment, quite the opposite.