Women With Words Special 2: Our Challenges, Strengths and Hopes as Malaysian women

In conjunction with International Women's Day, this podcast episode features Women with Words, our safe and supportive speaking club! In Part 2 of this special, we look at our challenges, strengths, and hopes for Malaysian women. Are there unreasonable expectations set upon us as women? How are we treated differently because of our gender? What are we grateful for and proud about? What are our hopes for Malaysian women listening? We discuss these questions and more!Women with Words is a platform where women and girls can deliver their speeches based on a theme, share their ideas, and obtain feedback. We aim to create a safe and supportive space for women & girls to express themselves. In the process, we also hope to build confident female speakers through speech practice, a supportive community, as well as meaningful group discussions.Join us on the 13th of March 2021 at 3pm to share your thoughts and opinions on the theme, Expression! Simply register here.Get more updates and information on the club on our FB group at 'My Female Speaking Club'.Also, check out past speeches shared during our meetings on our YouTube channel here.Special Thanks to Alison, Pratibha, Sasha, Alycia, Amrit, and Kuljit for sending in their snippets. And a big THANK YOU to Maslin who helped review all the snippets and put them together!The transcript for this episode can be found here.Episode timestamps below:Aissa: [00:00:00] IntroKuljit: [00:01:06] My challengesSasha: [00:02:05] Confusing expectationsAlison: [00:03:06] My expectationsManu: [00:04:21] Unfairness to womenAlycia: [00:05:18] Subconscious biasRina: [00:06:30] Body ImagePrat: [00:07:22] Looking differentKarishma: [00:10:57] Scarcity mindsetPuteri Balkhis: [00:12:13] Standing strongMai: [00:14:09] Checklists Alison: [00:16:23] GratitudeKuljit: [00:16:52] Support systemPrat: [00:17:43] Academic milestonesFyza: [00:19:27] Our achievementsSasha: [00:20:18] My achievementsSheng Yee: [00:21:54] ForgivenessMai: [00:23:28] It’s okay to failFyza: [00:24:42] Female idols and starting out Sasha: [00:25:45] Lifting othersKuljit: [00:27:54] Hope for Malaysian womenAlison: [00:29:03] Hope for Malaysian womenPrat: [00:30:19] Hope for Malaysian womenAissa: [00:30:58] End