MUJ Litmus Club students organized a
small event on March 8, to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD).
The event was well-managed and quite creatively done. Representatives
from an NGO ‘PRIA’ from Delhi also participated and emphasized on the
need for women empowerment and safety. A skit, a poem and a video were
shown, on the theme of IWD 2016, which was ‘Pledge for Parity’. So far
so good!
But my question to all concerned and to
women in particular is, why should women celebrate a Women’s Day at all?
What is the need to highlight the achievements of women alone? Women
have been breaking glass ceilings in almost all erstwhile male-dominated
areas, be it journalism, acting, mountaineering, driving, piloting
aircraft, going into space, sports, etc., so much so that, in the words
of UN Secretary General Ban ki Moon, ‘we have created a carpet of
shards’ by now! Today the extraordinary achievements of ordinary women
are as common place as those of ordinary men.
Isn’t
it time then, to treat women in the same category as men? Or will we
have to wait for another 117 years, as predicted by some experts, for
women to ultimately gain parity with men, which, it is being said, will
happen only in the year 2133?
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