Be Her Partner

ACM in collaboration with IEEE organized a talk “Be her Partner” by Ms.Tahira Malik, a human rights activist, lawyer, motivational speaker and a visiting faculty member at NUST. She highlighted equal partnership, family support and upbringing of a woman as the key factors for women empowerment. She started by the discussing the importance and credibility of women in the advancing community and highlighted the difficulties a working or studying woman has to face by the biased and prejudiced society.

 I carefully paid attention to the talk on ‘how the male dominant society defines self-made barriers in a woman’s life?’ How to make women empowerment possible when there is no equal treatment in areas like career, profession and being self-dependent. While the mentor addressed the audience, there was an aura of agreement and disagreement. A very good point was raised regarding sexism, just how a gender difference disapproves what you can achieve in life or let you feel safe when you go out for a good time.

 Mam specifically pointed out to stand up to the wrong assumptions set up by the so called right people. According to Ms.Tahira, it is truly a matter of choice what a person chooses to wear and as educated people we should never raise a question on a person’s character. The question answer series turned out rather surprising. All the male participants were the most energetic to ask questions which gave the hall a good laugh. However, Ms.Tahira managed to strike back with convincing answers.

Report By 

Hira Farooq

(Executive ACM Editorial Board)

Photograhers

Maham Shahid

Aatrah Rauf

Aayesha Arif