Can Women Leaders Make the World More Peaceful?

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Can Women Leaders Make the World More Peaceful?

If we have more women leaders, would we have a more peaceful world? I actually think that right now, women have a big responsibility to lead and transformation that’s happening around how we define success, how do we define work. Basically, the world as it is now has been designed by men and it is not working. There are a few good men who are very necessary. If you think of it, we have the first women’s revolution which was women getting to vote. The second women’s revolution which was led by Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem which was basically having access to every job, equal pay, every position at the top of every field. Now I think there’s a third women’s revolution which is redefining what success and work are. Instead of simply saying, “I want to be at the top with you, where you are,” just say, “Is this really the best way to run a business? Is this the best way to run the world?”

Women, I say no, many, many women are saying we need to actually change the corporate structure in which we are competing, change the political world in which we are competing. Not just compete on the terms that men created. You know what, when these changes happen and they are happening, men are going to be incredibly grateful.

In the making of life, in the very nature in which we are, there is something called masculine and feminine. Unfortunately, we have created a world where our idea of success and well-being is overwhelmingly masculine. You must understand, I’m not talking about male and female, I’m talking about masculine and feminine. A man is capable of being as feminine as he wishes to be in terms of his thoughts, in terms of his emotions when he wishes to be. Similarly a woman is as capable as a man to be as masculine as she wishes when the situation demands or when such actions are needed. Right now, we have created education systems which are purely masculine which is producing women also, whether you like it or not, unfortunately the idea of success has become masculine.

Those wanting to be successful even if they’re women, they’re becoming like this, which is a serious damage to humanity. If you take away the feminine from the world, everything that’s gentle, everything that’s beautiful, everything that’s his to take, everything that is the subtler aspect of life will disappear and only providing and survival aspect of life will exist. Right now, there is a serious concern about this. 25 years ago, in a normal colonization nobody would think it’s worthwhile discussing economy. We talked about the weather, we talked about juicy things in the town. We never talked about the economy.

Today in every colonization, everybody’s talking about the economy. Economy means livelihood, economy means providing, this is purely masculine in nature. I’m not saying women cannot provide, I’m not meaning men and woman, I’m talking about masculine and feminine. If you make the society so overwhelmingly masculine, you will obliterate the feminine. In this everything that’s gentle and beautiful will vanish even in a woman because when you set the standards that this is the only way you can succeed, even she will adapt to the situation which I feel they are adapting. Many women are expressing their masculinity much more stronger and cruder then a man, it is happening.

This is distressing because, if I’m allowed to say something from my life, you know, those days when we were growing up, my father is a physician, he’s the provider. My mother never earned much in her life but it was never such a thing that if she does not earn, she’s something less. No, she was the most valued person. As a child when I look back and see, with all due respect, when I look back and see in the way my life evolved, I could very easily live without my father but I cannot imagine my life without my mother. She never earned anything but that’s not the point.

Where the money came from didn’t make a difference but how it was done in the home was everything. I must tell you the simple things. She did everything in the house from stitching to embroidering to cooking to everything. She wouldn’t want anyone else to do it for her husband and children, she wants to do it herself. If you travel somewhere, if we have to sleep, if she saw an empty pillowcase, you know when you travel somewhere else, they’re just white pillowcases. She would say, “How can children sleep on empty pillowcases?” She would pull out a needle and thread right there, in 5 minutes she stitched a small little parrot or flower. This little green parrot, I stared and I slept.

It is so deep in my consciousness today, that little green parrot because that sense of the caring I think that little green parrot sank so deep into me and in many ways who I am today is a manifestation of that little green parrot that she stitched on that pillowcase. This is feminine, I’m not saying everybody has to embroider but I’m saying that sense of concern is feminine. This needs to happen. In the system of yoga, the hatha yoga is a common word being used everywhere without knowing the meaning generally. Hatha means, ha- means sun, tha- means moon, that means balancing the masculine and the feminine within yourself. Only when these two things are properly balanced within you, you are a full-fledged human being, otherwise you’re a lopsided human being.

The women who is the originator of yoga, I think in California you think it’s Madonna who did it. She is symbolized, ultimate symbol of man and how he’s symbolized is, all the images are one half of him is woman, other half is man. He is the ultimate man. One half is woman, another half is man. A true human being is an equal balance between masculine and feminine. In work places, I don’t see why gender should even be an issue. Why should you always look at somebody as a man or a woman? You can just look at them as a human being or a piece of life.