Daily Times
May 11, 2021
“It isn’t for women”. This is a line is all too familiar to many young women and girls, who are raised to believe that certain career paths just ‘aren’t suitable’ for them. They are taught at a tender age to colour their lives pink while basking in the fantasy of wedding days and magical recipes; all the while leaving behind dreams of embarking upon “tougher” and untrodden career paths, such as the police. This holds especially true in our region, where women are actively discouraged from pursuing a life of crime-fighting and upholding the law, as patriarchal attitudes dictate that we should let men be the country’s “saviours”. A prime example of such archaic workplace gender discrimination is currently unfolding in Sri Lanka.