Women's Day- 8th March everyone celebrates International women's day, Talking about India many of the women's didn't know that 8th march is the international women's day, still those who knows celebrates and some of them didnt even know why we celebrate the international women's day, So this is the post for people who don't know why we celebrate women's day (internationally) and for those also (specially men's who thinks there should be a men's day like women's day but they didn't know men's day exist and why we celebrate it) and for those also who thinks is it necessary to celebrate it?.
Just a thought, I may be wrong but still wanted to share this with everyone.
Basically when I am understandable enough, I came to know my mom always cook food serve it to whole family and my father goes everyday out for work and came home at evening, with a paycheck at the month end, so we are able to cover all our expenses. This is one system where women is housewife and men earns. Not at all problem with this , even I don't think so, If a women wants to be at home taking care of her house, her children's it's okay it's her choice, and a man wanted to go out and earn it's totally cool. But as the time goes I grew up and came to know that in some metro cities like pune, mumbai,etc, both husband and wife equally contributes to the income but not in kitchen (In this case also there are exceptions),This is not equality. I am not saying that everyone does it, but it generally happens, I only saw some families who does this. Both husband and wife works and at the end of the day women needs to cook and has to do all the things usually housewife does. The point here is we think this is our tradition or culture whatever we called it, that women has to do all the things necessary for family and men only work and earn. WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS THING.
Basically when I am understandable enough, I came to know my mom always cook food serve it to whole family and my father goes everyday out for work and came home at evening, with a paycheck at the month end, so we are able to cover all our expenses. This is one system where women is housewife and men earns. Not at all problem with this , even I don't think so, If a women wants to be at home taking care of her house, her children's it's okay it's her choice, and a man wanted to go out and earn it's totally cool. But as the time goes I grew up and came to know that in some metro cities like pune, mumbai,etc, both husband and wife equally contributes to the income but not in kitchen (In this case also there are exceptions),This is not equality. I am not saying that everyone does it, but it generally happens, I only saw some families who does this. Both husband and wife works and at the end of the day women needs to cook and has to do all the things usually housewife does. The point here is we think this is our tradition or culture whatever we called it, that women has to do all the things necessary for family and men only work and earn. WE NEED TO CHANGE THIS THING.
So how this is related to women's day? So lets first talk about why we celebrate women's day?
I search about it, According to Mirror UK " The event first started to campaign for better pay and rights for women, but is now aimed at inspiring females across the world."
The tradition began with the first National Women's Day on 28 february 1909 and its roots are in campaigning for better pay and voting rights. During an International conference of working women in Copenhagen, Clara Zatkin, leader of the ' Women's Office' for the social democratic party in Germany, suggested the idea of international Women's Day.On the eve of World War I campaigning for peace, Russian women observed their first international Women's Day on the last Sunday in Feb 1913. In 1965, it was declared as a non working day in USSR. Then International Women's Day was transferred to 8th march that same year and has remained the global date for the event since. In 1975 United Nations(UN) gave official sanction to international Women's Day and began sponsoring it.
So basically Women's Day mainly focus on the movement for women's rights.
This is the history behind it.
So our point is that, Is Indian Women have the rights for which we celebrate women's day?, Yes we have, in our Constitution, but there are many people who don't follow it. Today our Constitution gave equal rights to women but our men don't,(This generally happens in the rural areas of India) and there is movements going on for that.
But as a person we need to clear our thoughts and do what is best for our women. We need to help women out, to do what they want to, and yes a women is more capable then a man. She does her job as well as take care of her family at the same time. Our Mother works for us without getting anything in return, she works for us 365 days.
Our tradition says that after marriage women has to go to her husband's house, but what if a husband wants to go to her wife's house after marriage( we had a term for it "Gharjamai") but is this thing makes any difference, If such thing happens in our so called modern society will make the husband's life difficult by teasing and taunting.
We know there is equal rights to women in this country, but what parents do if they have only one daughter?. When husband's parents got sick wife will always be there to take care of them, then what if wife's parents are sick? Its her husbands responsibility to take care of her parents, isn't it? Why not husband's and wife's parents both stay with them at same time? what's problem in that? This equality I am taking about here, when this will come?
We need to ask these questions to our self and try to find solutions and answers for that. Then only there will be equality among the genders.
If we ask our elders why is this so, they simply tell us that it is our culture but no one thinks why it is there?
Male and Female are two parts of our society, from start males are considered as superior then females, because of this females always sacrificed their lives infront of men's ego. So, this part of society faces various injustice, outrage, atrocities. Still by tackling,fighting against such conditions with their capabilities and abilities, women's made their place in society not equally but ahead of men.
To find the answer of this question why we celebrate women's day I have came across various answers, some of them say, we don't know but many peoples gave me answers I am writing down,
"At least ek divas tari mahan purush lok he mantat ki women are equivalent to men.. Nahitar tyanna he kabul karayla lavne mhnje...... aani jar he debate asel ki karayla pahije ki nahi...tar obliviously karayla pahijech..."
"To strengthen women all aspect political, economical, social, cultural, mental its necessary to celebrate women's day."
" To make them realise that they too exist for themselves n not only for others."
" Don't know why but roj pahije, so I asked why? ' Tya divshi respect jashi deta ti roj dili pahije'. "
"Bahutek women's la equal vagvayla."
" Because to avoid or to stop discrimination among gender, and women's should get equal rights"
"Mahit nahi, baghav lagel, pan its natural na, Jasa aapan birthday celebrate karto, pan birthday kona individual cha karto, tasach je international day asto jasa Mother's Day, Women's Day he as a whole celebrate karto...."
"Ya divasa mule women development kiti ahe yachya hishob mandta yeto ani ground level var khup mahilanna fayda hoto.. for ex. self help group la, shivay ya divsa sathi government kahi tari scheme launch karte special for women"
" Equal Rights Sathi"
"A women brought you in this world so, every women must be respected."
These are personal opinions of the peoples, Most of them are correct and yes its everybody perspectives why they want to celebrate women's day. Which will directly or indirectly make lives better. We have to take some initiative to celebrate women's day in every institute of our country to make women's aware about their rights. Women's make our lives better, right from giving birth to our first friend our sister, to educating us in the form of our teachers, to our life partners, we cant imagine our world without them.
And yes for those who don't know, there is Men's Day on 19th November, will write about it on same day.
Special thanks to Amit Mahore, Deepali Didi, Prayaas bhau, for helping me out with this blog.
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