Since the development of the feminist movement, women have been systematically brainwashed into believing that the role of wife and mother is not only demeaning in itself, but it is also an insult to her highly functional brain. Generally speaking, it's an embarrassment for a modern woman to say that she doesn't work, or that she didn't graduate college, or that she's a dreaded stay-at-home mom, God forbid.

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I believe that the theme of self-empowerment is yet a further attack on the woman, and here's why. To me, self-empowerment implies a certain defensiveness; a need to be ready to stand up against... well, what, exactly? It seems to me that this term creates a subconscious need to be ready to stand up to a man! Not in the way of physical defense, but in the way of mental defense; as if the male gender is constantly ruling over the female gender in a domineering way.

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The self-empowerment mentality thus creates not only a mental and subsequent emotional divide between women and men, but it creates a mentality of "attack before you're attacked" in women. This could definitely lead to all kinds of strains in marriage, if a girl is raised with such a mentality and finds that her husband is more the traditional type (if such a thing even exists anymore.)

Here's another aspect of this problem. The idea of self-empowerment goes along with phrases such as "be a go-getter" and "come out of your shell." Newsflash, people. Girls, by nature, are more docile, quiet, reserved, and shy than boys! That's the way Hashem made us! What's the problem with being a shy, quiet girl who doesn't try to get everyone's attention?

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Hashem, in His infinite wisdom, created a perfect system of balance. By nature, women are more quiet, reserved, and home-oriented. But look what we have done with nature. We have perverted it into a nature where women are expected to act like men.

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It's time to toss the anti-Torah life values to the trash, and start living the way Hashem intended for us. If we listen to the timeless advice of the Torah, I have no doubt that everyone, not only women, will be not only self-empowered, but incredibly fulfilled as well.