Celebrating the Womanhood in Teenage

Thereʼs nothing wrong in growing up ahead of your age.

- Himshikha Shukla

Over the last year-and-a-bit, womanhood has meant a sense of freedom and ease – the ability to make choices about my identity that fulfill and comfort. Being a woman has always had its difficulties throughout the history of this patriarchal society. Today girls have an early womanhood. Puberty may hit at any point from around eight years of age to around twelve years of age, but according to modern society, girls are in process of transformation, into mature adult women, for another nine to thirteen years, depending on circumstances.

What is womanhood?

Society has defined womanhood in terms of physical appearances or in term of age. Some definition says womanhood is the period in a human female's life after she has passed through childhood, puberty, and adolescence. Are these words enough to justify the womanhood? Of course, not. It’s not about just growing in age and passing the years on the earth. It is something really more than that. Young girls, who are still in their teen ages are penning new definitions to womanhood. They may not have been passed the mark set by society in years but they are creating new benchmarks in womanhood.

Rohini, a teen girl of 17, already feels that she’s a woman. According to her, “Being a woman means sharing a special connection that extends beyond age, sexuality, political opinions and physicality. It’s something that bonds us together on a level that only women understand. It’s magic. We are magic. It’s an uphill, hard fight against the fear of our power that started way beyond our lifetime.”