By Hauwa Sani Muhammad
The 2021 International Women Day celebrates women’s day with the theme “Choose to challenge ” aims to highlight and recognize the achievements of women.
International Women’ Day is celebrated on the 8th March of every year. It’s the day for praising women who work hard every day to accomplish individual and professional goals.
To observe this day different events take place including movements or march across the globe. There are some countries where women are not treated equally, so, in these countries, protests are observed for the liberation of women.
For many people, the role of women is limited to household chores only. However, this needs to change as women deserve equal freedom and opportunities in everything like men.
The world is moving towards gender equality. It is moving towards a balance between both men and women. A change is required and is also essential. It is observed that men have had more advantages in every sphere of life in comparison to women since ages.
However, this needs a change as we all are humans and should be treated equally with equal rights and opportunities.
On International Women’s Day, everyone appreciates the women in their lives. Everyone acknowledges the worth and significance of women in their lives, and their tremendous contribution to society as well.
Be it in professional life or personal life, celebrating women is a sense of obligation to every woman in one’s life.
In most countries, the day has been observed as a national holiday. Women across the nation come together crossing all the boundaries from various cultural and ethnic groups to remember their struggle for peace, justice, equality, and development.
International Women’s Day is all about feeling self-worth and achieving the goals as per the potential. Besides that, women should gather the courage to cross all the hurdles in all the spheres of life to make a tremendous improvement. It is a general myth in society that women-related issues are not a big deal. Many people believe that the gender gap does not exist in society and efforts by individuals are not enough and cannot bring any change to the gender gap.
Women’s Day is all about making society realise that each individual has to work differently and changing society towards a better future.
It’s a day for celebrating women who work hard every day to achieve personal and professional goals. It’s a day when there are activists, movements, and March that happen all around the world. Around the world, it is the DayDay with the most changes. One of the reasons for protesting is for the liberation of women around the world. There are some countries where women don’t get equal rights. In these countries, the role of women is limited to household chores. However, this needs to change because women deserve equal opportunities at everything like men. The world is moving towards achieving gender balance. It’s moving towards equality for both men and women.
The change is something that is needed and is essential. For ages, men have had more privileges in every sphere of society. However, that needs to change because we are all humans, and we should all get equal rights and opportunities.
International women’s Day is a day where everyone appreciates everything that the women in their lives do. It’s a day when everyone acknowledges the value and importance of women in their livesof women in the world is immense
It is a day that women are expected to come together across the world to evaluate the global impact of women and areas of improvement for a better world.
Women of the world want and deserve an equal future free from stigma, stereotypes and violence, a future that is sustainable, peaceful, with equal rights and opportunities for all.
On the issue of achieving 35 per cent affirmative action, both leaders said it has been a fore front for quite some times, citing the female lawmakers in the Senate and House of representatives which stepped up to push for greater representation of women in politics and other sectors of the society.
Some women Interviewed expressed their views on the challenges women faces and call for re-strategizing.
In a nutshell, the significant impact on governance and nation-building, made by some women in Nigeria can never be overemphasized. For instance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-lweala and Amina Muhammed who are eminent women in the global space.
Also Kamala Harris made history as the first female Vice President of the United States of America.
To this end, concern authorities should offers uncountable opportunities for a Women,politically, economically and other critical sectors with full confidence so as to contribute their quoter to the nation building.
Parents and guardians while taking the responsibities of monitoring women especially girls child,they also have to give them chances to expose their blessings talents to the world.
Women in the final remark should consider themselves as a great assert always focus on how to brighter their future.