It seems clinched but International Women’s Day (IWD) is still one of the best days to spread your appreciation to women world wide .While some men are not big fans of this day or the newly popular Day, some men can still use this day as an excuse to show that women are not worth to be praised for their efforts and how much they have achieved.
IWD is celebrated on the 8th of March every year to recognise the valuable contributions that women make towards development.
It is the day that UN set aside to reflect and celebrate the achievements made by women.
There are so many reasons why people are sinking their teeth into the world of Women Affairs, Gender equality, lets go 50/50 endlessly and this question comes to the fore, now in the wake of men and women of equality who are fighting for gender equality in all forms of work, schools and University.
‘Men of quality are not afraid of equality’ (Padare Gender Forum) but as a matter of fact the Vice President of Zimbabwe Joyce Mujuru has suggested to put it in this way, ‘Women of equality are not afraid of equality.’
o make a woman know the difference.
Men were born perfect with the power to dominate over women but without each other no one is complete thus the two make it one.
I was spared into writing this piece of story after I realised that people’s minds have been altered that women were not supposed to be given a chance to lead in a society where men were not extinct.
I thought one would not need a sage to know women were born women.
According to the old and timeless book called the Bible the first women to live on the face of the earth was Eve. She was so disobedient, cunning and weak in support that the serpent spoke and she listened.
Like most of her successors, through her dubious means persuaded her male counterpart into believing evil. From there she overlooked all ordinances and the social orders so she called unseat Adam his discern making throne and she succeeded.
Men set women up as ‘others’. The result was that women were alienating themselves from all odds of duties thereby giving men positions and they perform as pillars.
The question that always follows a maverick scenario is that, can women perform the same tasks alongside their male counterparts or it’s a mere waste of time.
This year’s theme for IWD was…Equal Access to education……
And Zimbabwe has localised it to Equal Access to Education: A Pathway to Development.
Do women chew over al these daily connotations that gender equality so close, yet so far or its just a matter which they brood over and continue with their lives and focus on rhetorical language that they want equality and empowerment?
It does not necessitate a rocket scientist to decipher that if women are not competitive enough to work against their male counterparts, it will be a broken promise that women can do it and men will continue to look down upon them.
A series of unfound and unfortunate rumours purporting that women should be submissive to their husbands has been totally misconstrued and have resulted in unnecessary Gender Based Violence (GBV) waxing the sons and daughters of this world.
Women have a right to fight for their rights some thought it was a privilege but today a day has been made to commemorate the day of a woman world wide.
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