both men and women from their confining gender roles, we will create a fairer society. This is why it is so significant that ahead of this year’s Asian Woman Festival that the event has been backed by a male-owned business. The festival team only hope that this will encourage more and more people to see that the endeavours of the team are not just a female issue, but when both genders come together so much positive change can come about.
“We are born of woman, we are conceived in the womb of woman, we are engaged and married to woman. We make friendship with woman and the lineage continued because of woman. When one woman dies, we take another one, we are bound with the world through woman. Why should we talk ill of her, who gives birth to kings? The woman is born from woman; there is none without her. Only the One True Lord is without woman.“ (Guru Nanak, Var Asa, pg. 473)
