In a push towards women empowerment, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) Goa divisional Office celebrated the International Women’s Day 2021 by converting its retail outlet in Vasco into an all-women operated retail outlet.
It is learnt that this is the first outlet in the State to have all women staff. It must be said that in today’s world women participate and lead on an equal footing with men.
Women have excelled in every field which includes social, economic, cultural and political fields. There is probably no job which men do that women cannot do. Women in India have been engaged in right from driving a cab to flying a jet fighter.
The only thing necessary is for women to be presented an opportunity to take up jobs in a male dominated society. Just like the all-women operated petrol pump in Vasco we could have banks, private offices, shopping-arcades and other business premises run solely by women.
The government in the State could do its bit by announcing special schemes for women on the occasion of the just concluded International Women’s Day.
It is pertinent to note that on International Women’s Day the Karnataka proposed to open crèches in government offices in the State and up-gradation of Anganwadis into crèches for the benefit of urban working women.
