Women Heralding Change

Abstract

The world today needs more feminine leadership, because we face one of the most challenging tasks of transformation of our times. Feminine leadership is needed to balance the very masculine models that abound, which do not always produce the world we want. The key to change lies in the feminine way, which looks at the whole group and tries to include the whole, waiting for those left behind: even if it means delaying the group, or the process or the fruit/result. The goals are collective; the focus of progress is that of the community rather than the individual. I have observed over the years that the feminine way focuses on inclusion instead of domination: it emphasizes process more than the end goal; it emphasizes group over individual.

This is the text of a speech by Ms Bhatt to women journalists held at Ahmedabad in September 2014, at a conference organized by the Media Women’s Forum, Gujarat, under the purview of the Network of Women in Media, India.