Acharya Prashant addresses the topic of women's empowerment by first questioning the very foundation of gender identity. He recounts advising a young man that a girl is right for him only if he would still spend time with her if she were a boy. This illustrates his core point: gender identity should not be overly developed in children. He criticizes practices like dressing girls in pink frocks and braiding their hair, arguing that if such gender-specific conditioning is done for girls, it should be done for boys too. He questions the logic behind certain feminine practices, like applying lipstick, which he has found puzzling since childhood, as it involves putting chemicals on the lips used for eating. The speaker then critiques the common notion that humans are constantly swept away by lust, a belief used to justify separating genders. He points out that even animals, who live in the open, do not constantly chase each other for mating. This constant state of lust in humans, he argues, is a result of societal conditioning that heavily emphasizes gender differences. The more you differentiate between the two genders through clothing, behavior, and separate spaces, the more sexual tension and attraction you create. He contrasts this with some foreign cultures where people are less concerned with others' appearances, leading to less sexual tension. Responding to the questioner's point about women's empowerment, Acharya Prashant states that much of what is called women's empowerment is merely a demand for equality with men. He finds this a low and ordinary goal, asking why women would want to be equal to men, whom he describes as being like animals. Instead of gender equality, he proposes the concept of 'gender irrelevance'. The real goal should be liberation from the identity of being a woman, just as a man needs liberation from his own conditioned identity. True liberation for a woman is not to be empowered *as* a woman, but to become a human being, free from the bondage of womanhood. This, he asserts, is only possible through the spiritual empowerment of the entire society, where both men and women can rise above their conditioned gender roles and relate to each other as human beings.