This is certainly a paradoxical question that whether women empowerment is responsible for having an increased number of divorces because we cannot hold the empowerment of women as the only reason of having divorces. However, reasons of divorces are many but it is also not deniable that with empowerment comes a sense of attaining independence and authority that seems tough to be achieved in a relationship like marriage. The women of today are seeking independence, freedom of expression, authority and power and this only means to be empowered when a woman is empowered her aspirations become higher, her desires to achieve and acquire increases (which is not also wrong at all) and in such a case she sometimes become rebel not to make any further suppression or compromise with regard to her aspirations. She tends to feel that why only she has to make all the adjustments and compromises and there begin a new circle of argument and logics that further gives rise to a new phenomena between a husband and wife – Divorce. But if that happens then nobody should wish for empowerment but that too is the basic need of the present time, after all everyone needs that. Then what is the middle and balanced way to a sustain empowerment and still having a harmonious married life? Gone are the days when only women used to make all the adjustments and compromises, today both men and women are struggling to make their own identities hence both have to cooperate with each other and moreover have to respect each other’s roles and responsibilities. Women should understand that not always men are waiting to suppress them and men should understand that the women too are active doers of the society and the family. They need to be motivated and empathized.
