Miss World reveals: The women who deserve the highest
salaries
Reigning beauty
queen Manushi Chhillar pays tribute to mothers — and hopes for a future without
the term ‘women empowerment’
Miss World Manushi
Chhillar ended her speech at The Economic Times Women’s Forum with a powerful
thought: “I pray that in the future, no one knows the meaning of women
empowerment because we don’t need these words. Women are equal to men.”
The 20-year-old beauty pageant winner, dressed in a
sheer Zara Umrigar gown and her glittering crown fixed firmly on her head, who
has great adoration for her own mother, had spoken earlier about how all
mothers were entrepreneurs.
“Women are doing wonders as entrepreneurs. I realised
that being a mother is similar to being an entrepreneur,” she said. “You set up
a system that is your family and you invest... you take risks and you actually
have the most important job of rearing up the future of not just your family or
an individual, but of the entire world. That is a tough and risky job. So, for
me, all mothers are entrepreneurs. And they deserve the highest salaries.”
Stressing on the importance of gender equality,
Chhillar said that she, perhaps, subconsciously started preparing for the Miss
India pageant 20 years ago. “It’s been 20 years of being a woman who never
treated herself differently just because she was a girl, of growing up in a
family where she didn’t know the meaning of women empowerment because she never
felt she needed it, and I think I was fortunate,” said Chhillar, hoping that
soon stories like hers become the norm rather than the exception.
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ET19MAR18
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