8th March is International Women's Day. There have been a lot of emails, activities, events planned across companies for this day. Email greetings for the women in the organization, roses from colleagues, wearing sarees to celebrate are just some examples.
As per Wikipedia, the first Women's Day found its origin in the Socialist Party of America in the first decade of the 1900's and has since evolved in different countries - the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.
All this leads me to wonder, do we need a Special Men's Day - why are we not celebrating their existence or their achievements? Is it because women were not expected to achieve anything in the first place and have take the men by surprise or is the world ridding itself of its guilt by making up for lost time in being generally nice and respectful to women on this day..?
Call me a cynic but won't it be nice if we didn't need a special day to celebrate Women..if the world was without prejudice on the basis of gender, our streets were safe to walk at any time, wearing anything we want, men and women 'shared' the guilt for going to work and leaving their children behind, we would stop using terms like 'career woman' for the working females (have you ever heard of a career man?), our mothers would eat with our fathers instead of feeding them first...
The world is changing and hopefully into a better place...women are definitely in a better place today and have more choices in life. But we have a long way to go...
As per Wikipedia, the first Women's Day found its origin in the Socialist Party of America in the first decade of the 1900's and has since evolved in different countries - the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements.
All this leads me to wonder, do we need a Special Men's Day - why are we not celebrating their existence or their achievements? Is it because women were not expected to achieve anything in the first place and have take the men by surprise or is the world ridding itself of its guilt by making up for lost time in being generally nice and respectful to women on this day..?
Call me a cynic but won't it be nice if we didn't need a special day to celebrate Women..if the world was without prejudice on the basis of gender, our streets were safe to walk at any time, wearing anything we want, men and women 'shared' the guilt for going to work and leaving their children behind, we would stop using terms like 'career woman' for the working females (have you ever heard of a career man?), our mothers would eat with our fathers instead of feeding them first...
The world is changing and hopefully into a better place...women are definitely in a better place today and have more choices in life. But we have a long way to go...
