AWCCI Magazines Afghan Women in Business (Issue 3) | Page 34

Independent women are more
attractive
By Zahra Tarshi
I am not a materialist, it is not a motto, it is
my belief that the poorest people are those,
whose asset is only money but being inde-
pendent financially for a woman is a must.
We as women should know that, nobody
can stand on others’ feet, then how come
they can actually walk through others’
feet. We should stand independently and
build our lives with our own potentials.
in partner life is that
one person is working
and paying all the expenses
and the other one is
just looking?
All of us as women that want the equality
with the men in our society, we know better
we should make our life and not to wait for a
man to come in our life and support and fund
us to implement our entire plan for the future.
In a men dominant society like Afghanistan
until women are not financially independent,
they can never complain about inequality in
a society against men. It would be better
to say they have no rights for complaining.
In the past women believed that being pow-
erful will help them to compete, but today
they believe that being smart is better than
being powerful. If a woman is strong but
not smart she would always sacrifice for
her family because she thinks she is very
Take some time and think with yourself as a strong and can help and assist her family.
woman, when a man is asking a woman to get A strong and smart woman knows better
married until they come to an arrangement how to manage her life, and take care of
for their marriage, this is the man who pays other family members to enjoy with her,
for all the expenses such as wedding expens- but she would never forget herself and
es, house, cloths, jewelry, home equipment’s always feels very important for herself.
and even for the smallest things for the bride
and finally he pays the amount of money
Don’t forget to not
that is called “Toyana” to the bride’s family.
work only for
the money.
We should work
for being an
independent
woman.
If you would be instead of that man to
get someone with his money you would
feel ownership over her. It is logical-
ly those men think their wives are their
property then it is starting from be-
ginning of their so called married life. Choose a job that we love it, loving your
job will motivate you to work better. In-
dependent women always manage their
Now could you tell us
personal life in a best and magic way.
where the cooperation
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