Woman is supposed to
be beautiful, innocent and mild. That is the common picture of the ideal lady
we believe in.
Having a women’s day will be a mere decoration if gender
discrimination, exploitations and harassments they face continue. Because of
being a girl child many are aborted in mother’s womb. In the Asian culture
woman has a fixed role of household work and child upbringing while the
opportunities to go up in the academic ladder are curtailed.
When women in engaged
in an anti social behavior the way she is humiliated by the society is totally
different from men. Because of adultery women in some counties are stoned to
death while men are not punished in such a brutal manner.
Obviously woman is different from man biologically. But it
does not mean that she must be discriminated. It does not mean that she is
weak. Women have gone to the space, become presidents, prime ministers and done
a great role. Women have won noble prize. Mary Curie is the best example. This
has proved that women can compete with men from their talents and knowledge.
Women’s rights are most
probably violated as a result of poverty. In poor families women work from dawn
to dusk to earn the living and feed the children even with physical
difficulties like pregnancy. Also they have
to face much exploitation. Unfortunately they are beaten by their drunken
husbands daily. Thus in some occasions male bread winner concept is just a
myth.
Woman without man is nothing while man without woman is also
nothing. Man cannot stand alone if he loses the support of the female roles of
his life such as mother, sister, wife and daughter. Also woman needs the
affection, care and security from farther, brother and husband.
Woman deserves her rights and she deserves the respect and
care from the society. Convention on the Elimination of all forms of
Discrimination against Women 1979 discusses about the equality with men before
the law, same right to enter to the marriage with free and full consent etc. It
is important to consider how far these are in practice within the world.
Therefore the most important thing is to
change the attitude. If women’s day and all these conventions can be used as a
platform to create a better place for women that will be meaningful.
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