International Women’s Day

CRUX

As a word “Women” indicates, women word includes men. It means that she can take responsibilities of both men and women. Apparently she looks very silent and soft but when time comes she can take over any opportunity to prove her capacity. There are many exclusive examples in front of us to tell how woman can change her surrounding just by her move.

Naturally woman has all the powers which are enough to run the society. She can do works inside home like woman and even she can do all works outside the home as man. As proverb says “If a man gets education, only he will learn but if woman gets education then her whole surrounding gets education”.  It’s globally acceptable thing. There are many other proverbs that tell us power of woman. Despite of all this, woman facing many difficulties in this forwarded society also. Like sexual harassment, male dominancy, controlling her abilities and this list goes on.

In many developed countries also woman is struggling for her rights. Many times her voice doesn’t even reach to the neighbor person also. To balance any two things, both sides of the balance must be equal likewise to balance the society both men and women plays major and equal role.

HISTORY

The intention of establishing a world Women’s Day are often copied back version of new York town in February 1908 that is once thousands of ladies United Nations agency were garment staff went on strike and marched through the town to protest against their operating conditions. “Like nowadays, these girls were in less organized workplaces [than their male counterparts], were within the lower echelons of the garment industry, and were earning very low wages and experiencing harassment,” says Eileen Boris, faculty member of Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.

In honor of the anniversary of these strikes that were in progress for quite a year a National Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time within the U.S. on Feb. 28, 1909, spearheaded by the political party of America.

Led by German candidate and socialist Clara Zetkin, the thought to show the day into aInternational movement advocating universal franchise was established at the International Conference of working girls in 1910. Zetkin was far-famed as an infatuated public speaker and advocate for working women’s rights, and her efforts were crucial for her intitial recognition throughout Europe within the early 1910s.

When does International women’s day celebrated?

International women’s day is celebrated on March 8^th every year worldwide to show the gratitude for all the women across the world.

SIGNIFICANCE

Well, actually it is not necessary to celebrate this women’s day but still we are celebrating this day worldwide. Because the present situation of women is very critical regardless of country. Technology may be forwarded but the situation of women still remains same as before. May be because of some campaigns and movements, the situation of women is improved.

THEMES

An equal world is an enabled world.

Supporting and celebrating women’s rights is a year-round responsibility. But at its core, International Women’s Day serves an important purpose.

It forces conversations about women’s achievements and global gender inequality into the mainstream – and it invites people of all backgrounds, ages and genders to consider what they can do to make the world a more equal place for everyone.

You sure about that? Here are 10 reasons why we need International Women’s Day:

• Nine out of 10 people found to be biased against women.
• Women are twice as likely to be a victim of domestic or sexual abuse compared to men.
• Women are three times as likely to be a victim of stalking compared to men.
• A gender pay gap persists across the globe.
• Women are still not present in equal numbers in business or even in politics.
• Men are still allowed to make life-threatening decisions about women’s bodies like abortions.
• Women around the world spend more than twice as many hours as men doing unpaid work.
• Figures also show that globally, women’s education, health and violence towards women is still worse than that of men.
• Disasters such as floods, storms and drought kill more women than men due to the unequal division of power and resources between women and men.
• More than 12 million underage girls are married off each year. That’s roughly 30,000 every single day.

Clearly, there’s still a long way to go, but IWD plays a major role in keeping the debate alive and the issues front and center.

But let’s not forget, women exist the other 364 days of the year as well. People must celebrate and stood up for women throughout the course of the year, not just for one day.