Mary Francine Padios after winning the gold medal at the 31st SEA games
Photo Courtesy: Rappler
People said that men are born with a half-full cup, and with little effort, they can dominate; whereas women are born with empty cups where recognition and social integration needs hard work—and these ladies just did that.
In the Summer Olympics 2020, Hidilyn Diaz became the first Filipina to win a gold medal in 55 kilograms weightlifting. Currently, in 2022, Mary Francine Padios, an 18-year-old Aklan native, broke the ice for the Philippines as she fetched the first gold medal in Pencak Silat (Indonesian martial arts) in the 31st Southeast Asian Games.
Seen as inferior and presumed as being the bottom of the food chain, this clearly paints the picture that women are slowly dominating the fields.
Women have immeasurable talents and capabilities; patriarchal ideology is a hindrance that needs to be obstructed. As the world aims for gender justice, people’s perspectives should radically arise.
Women can be anything they want to be. May it be in sports or other fields that capture their interest and passion. They can be a leader; they can be a powerful agent of change.
Any notion is not gender-specific. In the present time, there is no such thing as man-dominated fields. Ladies can slay and skim the best. They are empowering; they are limitless.
Females are slowly rewriting their history, wherein in their story, they are the ones who conquer. Despite strides in women’s representation, they are eligible to fight, assertively represent, and taste the sweet wine of success.
Driven to smash archaic thinking, women are not just women; they are more than what they confined to them. Unquestionably, Diaz and Padios carve their niches; they are notable.
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