Thursday, March 8, 2012

Why Woman's day?

Greetings!! Happy Women’s day to all…

I was just wondering, why we are celebrating women’s day... Is it just another occasion so that men could express their love for women… like that on Valentine’s Day..?
No….
It is actually said International working women’s day. It was something done to articulate women’s right and international peace… and we had changed it into something so that we could enjoy…
It is the day to remember the suffering women’s economic and practical difficulties. Despite big changes in some women’s lives, they still continue to be the main take-carers for children and other family members. One in five women will experience violence from partners or ex-partners at some time in their lives. The capitalist system turns everything into a commodity, including women’s bodies - whether for sale directly in the sex industry or indirectly through their use in advertising and selling products.
There has been little research however investigating whether women’s employment conditions and events have any impact on mothers’ mental health and well-being during pregnancy. At other stages of the life course, poor working conditions and workplace stress can lead to worse psychological outcomes such as heightened depression and anxiety.
The list continues…
A democratically planned economy would release resources to ensure a decent income and economic independence for everyone. Publicly provided quality services such as childcare, healthcare, education, housing, transport etc. would give women real choice over every aspect of their lives. A society based on equality and cooperation would lay the basis for an end to all forms of sexism and violence against women; women would finally be truly liberated.
And that is what we should move into…
Oh!! God…it’s already late to office … let me stop, my mother is calling to give her a hand in the kitchen, I don’t usually help her in the morning… But I think for today I need to help her… at least for today… bcoz she too is a women, na? A working woman... who doesn’t get any pay for working from morning to evening, looking after the children, whose work is not counted at all… I think women itself is the culprits against the women’s condition. We all have such mothers and wives in our homes, let us at least try to remember/ respect their contribution towards our life, at least on this WOMEN’s DAY... rather than fighting with our boyfriends, for not getting us the gift for today ;)