When I take some time to think about it, I’m no better than the next one to talk about women’s rights. After all, what difference does a day make in a year to celebrate all the women of the world – the living, the dead and the ones that are yet to come.
Still, 24 hours are more than enough to stop and meditate on how far we’ve come; since basic rights like equal education to right to vote, our sisters fought to improve society(ies) equality when it comes to gender. Let us not forget that women aren’t the only winners of the continuous battle – every man of value feels more comfortable in a society where he knows that it wasn’t his sexuality that got him his high-paid job, or his promotion, or his cherished place in politics in order to represent a society that is itself constituted by both men and women.
Yes, the battle is fought in every ground, in every way, every single day. We long to help our sisters from developing countries to get things that we now take for granted, such as a higher education that prevents them to end up in the streets prostituting to pay a husband she was forced to marry with. We fight to break the silent but still existent glass ceiling that prevents women to reach leading positions in fields that were still closed to them a few decades ago.
Men are a precious help in this battle; gender equality is a right that assists both sexes and that makes a society proud when it is lived in its fullness by men and women.
We shall overcome; sisterhood is powerful.
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