Why there should not be a women’s day?

International women’s day is celebrated across world on 8^th of March every year. People send messages, governments have celebrations and awareness campaigns, corporate office greet women employees, families greet their women and much more.

At large any day is dedicated to either commemorate the significance of a person/event, to raise awareness, bring people together or to bring focus on a particular issue/disesase/happening.

Women’s day as such started 100+ years ago to raise awareness on issues such as gender inequality, gender biases, pay parity among two genders, women specific issues across the world. To name a few in India, starting from female foeticide, female infanticide, education dropouts, safe child birth issues, dowry, domestic violence, sexual abuse like rape, and sexual harassments and all such stuff. Many of these are still largely prevailing.

Also womens’ day is to celebrate the womanhood, motherhood, women’s achievments despite their biological and social inhibitions and all that.

I agree for the second part. But women’s day going forward at-least in my next generation of kids the first set of issues I wish disappear so that women’s day need not be marked to raise awareness on such issues. It is important to bring up our kids in a gender equal or a gender neutral society.

Many may argue this may be feminisim or all such terms, but in reality the issue mentioned exist in large and have to be addressed. As a society we have to work towards it and try to reach an ideal world, which I suppose may not happen suddenly but can happen over a period of time if collective efforts are put.

One day I wish I do not want to see a womens’ day!

Last note: This post is dedicated to all women who are submissive, whose silent sacrifices have kept their family smiling J

With Best wishes It's TVR..