International Day for Women
INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year to pay tribute to the amazing and talented women around the world.
This day needs to be remembered every time until things improve for women globally. The younger women are now emerging as major agents of change and doing productive movements to solve the issues but some liberals have destroyed the real concept of Women’s Day and their genuine rights.
We should highlight the real problems that women are facing in our country today, such as rape, domestic violence and lack of education.
For many people, the role of a woman is limited to household chores only.However, this needs to change as women deserve equal freedom and opportunities in everything like men.
We need to empower women so that they are able to make their decisions on their own.A strong woman stands up for herself and the stronger woman can stand up for every other woman.
Social change in our society is much needed to make women strong enough to change their mindset and to make the world a more equal place because half the population of the world consists of women.
International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world.It is a day when women are for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political.
Since those early years, International Women’s Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike.
The growing international women’s movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women’s conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point to build support for women’s rights and participation in the political and economic arenas.
International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on the progress made, to call for a change and to celebrate the acts of courage and determination by ordinary women, who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.
The world has made unprecedented advances, but no country has achieved gender equality.
Fifty years ago, we landed on the moon; in the last decade, we discovered new human ancestors and photographed a black hole for first time.
In the meantime, legal restrictions have kept 2.7 billion women from accessing the same choice of jobs as men.
Less than 25 per cent of parliamentarians were women, as of 2019.One in three women experience gender-based violence, still.
The bottom line of celebrating women’s day is due to the widespread differences in various fields — the pay difference of 14.9% between men and women, only 21.4% of seats for women in parliament around the world, lack of awareness for women education and many more.
—The writer is contributing columnist, based in Mumbai, India
