Women have undergone discrimination from the beginning of time.
Whether it may be a different race, religion or ethnicity, no women is exempt from the tide of inequality that seems to rule our lives. Men are seen as the dominant one, the more skilled one, the alpha in the pack: and women, the followers.
This inequality, this injustice seems to be all built on the fact that women have the ability to give life therefore, making them more vulnerable and weak. Shouldn’t this make women seem stronger?
And the fact that some people believe that there is social justice for women in high economically developed countries are masked, in the same way how Trump-supporters are masked from his anti-muslim views, because the songs, the songs we hum to, are filled with derogatory terms, shaming women on their appearances, and the unshamed serving as prizes for men to lust on, and we carry on with our lives believing women have the same power as men do.
But we don’t.
And this must stop.
Thursday the 8th of March marks international women’s day which celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. It is the day where women review their achievements and call for gender equality globally as many are still deprived of the luxury.
This years focus is “Time is Now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives” and was derived in hopes of “propelling a rising determination for change”.
International Women’s Day is significant to all but not all have a positive outlook on this day for valid reasons:
Sajida Yasmin states, ”Women shouldn’t just have a day for themselves; everyday should be about women. It’s shameful that we need a whole day to celebrate women when we should already celebrate women and everything they do in our day-to-day lives.”
Whatever you do this international women’s day, stand up and make a change, for every little change is an avalanche In the distant future.
Nazeerah Patel, Lister Community School.
