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The Importance Of Womanhood

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When I was casually surfing the internet, I came across an interesting article on American women carrying men 's wallets. 8 out of 10 women had posted saying that they had gotten rid of using purses. Many reasons popped up like ‘not a girly-girl’, ‘does not wish to be usual woman, anymore’ etc. However what was strange about these reasons was that none of the women wanted to retain the distinct allure of womanhood.
These revelations led me to undertake a survey on Indian women’s preferences on purse versus men’s wallets. Again to my surprise, 3 out of 5 Indian women liked carrying men 's wallets with the same kind of reasoning that American women gave.
This was quite a shock and totally unexpected! I wanted to scream out loud - “why do …show more content…

I feel very great being born as a woman. Have you ever experienced the elegance of womanhood? Dressing up like men and projecting oneself as woman doesn’t go hand in hand. You could be a fashion freak, smelling of Nina Ricci, or all decked up in Yves St. Laurent, but I personally feel, to project a feminist way i.e., the woman in you, you need that wow factor within you. That is when one can be truly beautiful, elegant, gorgeous, attractive and all the million descriptive words for women.
Now, enough about my thoughts on womanhood. Let me put across a few points on why I felt very disappointed about the results of the survey I conducted and the article that lead to it. I respect the views of other women on the topic, yet I’m not quite pleased with it. Men 's wallets are meant to be smaller in size to fit in their pant pocket, where there is no room to hold anything else, other than cash and cards. It is also comfortable for men to carry it as they don’t desire to bring along anything else with them. Unlike men 's wallets, women purses are quite larger in size to accommodate more

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