WOMAN POWER:: Kiran Bedi, Director-General, Bureau of Police Research & Development, Ministry of Home Affairs, is all smiles at the International Women's Day celebrations organised by the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat Women Employees Welfare Association in the city on Thursday.- Photo: Mohd.Yousuf

HYDERABAD: If members of the Andhra Pradesh Secretariat Women Employees Welfare Association were looking for some motivating words on the occasion of International Women's Day, then they got them in ample measure from Kiran Bedi, first woman IPS officer.

In an interactive session at the Ravindra Bharathi here on Thursday, Director-General, Bureau of Police Training and Development, Ms. Bedi, said women as a class did not yet make a difference to the role played by men. "If they had, they would have ushered in a new management culture.

Barring few individuals, women did not pave path to a new work culture. Many women, like men, were also arrested for corruption."

Good governance

In the new age, one was not looking for mere employment percentage of women but for the good governance they would bring in with a fair, positive and fearless attitude. "Ask yourself if you are the new age woman, capable of taking right decisions? It is only when women working in every possible field have the right attitude, new face of management and leadership will emerge," the Magsaysay awardee said.

Ms. Bedi demolished the eternal dilemma of women about their primary responsibility. "Give up dichotomy in thought.

Her duty is to become her own decision-maker and architect of her own destiny, by being confident, independent, contributing and self-respecting. Both men and women are interdependent".She advised women to learn to earn their rest by making family members help in the chores.

Transco CMD Rachel Chatterji advised women to be the agents of the change if they wanted a change in perception of society at large.

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