Today, the 8th of March, 2023, is a day set aside to celebrate wonderful women all over the world.
It is a day to celebrate our mothers, sisters, female friends and loved ones who are women.
A day like this excites me as it makes me see how the world really is evolving, from the point In time when women couldn’t vote or weren’t allowed to, to the time where women were seen as properties, to the period in time where women were to be seen but not to be heard of and to the many limitations focused only on women to prohibit them from achieving or becoming anything successful due to their gender.
Let’s not also forget how having female children makes the father seem weak and how Society looks down on a woman who only bore female children.
I once had a strange and rather difficult situation with a particular teacher whilst I was in Secondary school. This teacher of mine asked how many siblings I had and I said 3 sisters, he then proceeded to ask ‘what about boys, do you have a brother?’. When I said NO, I saw the way his face changed to that of pity and sympathy as if Female children have no regard in society. This is one amongst the few encounters I had when I was younger. A classmate of mine in Secondary school once told me how my dad is trying to be surrounded by only girls.
Regardless of all these sayings, I’ve never seen anyone that works as hard as my sisters do. How effortless they make adulthood seem to me and how sweet and focused they are. They are indeed my father and mother’s pride.
Society for hundreds of years has dictated to women what we can and can’t be, what we should and shouldn’t do and who we can and can’t be. Women have been subjected to female marginalisation, female oppression, segregation, sexual objectification, inequality and many more amongst others.
But, like I said earlier, I am happy that the world is slowing evolving as women are slowly but steady being seen as more than just being women but also on their merits.
I am glad the suffragist movement paved way for women to have the right to vote too, I am grateful to the feminists who took their time to lead this movement. I am also glad to see women spearheading innovative sectors, I am glad women are now dominating difficult career sectors and most importantly, I am glad they get to do this as women.
This is not to disregard that some of the problems I stated in this blog are not in existence because they still are but, I am glad that as women, we’ve been able to identify that there is a problem and we have decided to take charge and work on it.
Happy international women’s Day to the courageous women in our lives and to you and I . I am grateful a day was set aside to celebrate our graciousness as indeed, our gender, is a marvelous one.
