Having to Celebrate Women's Day
Having to Celebrate Women’s Day O ur calendars are brimming over with ‘days’ these days. There are days and weeks meant to raise awareness about certain diseases (World Aids Day, TB Day etc), or to mark certain events in history (Independence Day, Republic Day), to thank certain professionals (Teachers’ Day, Doctors’ Day), to celebrate relationships (Mothers’ Day, Fathers’ Day)…. However, one Day that I sincerely believe we should be ashamed of celebrating is Women’s Day. Now before you raise your eyebrows and call me a male chauvinist and anti-feminist, allow me to clarify my point. How many people do we have scattered on earth today? Six billion or so, right? And how many of these are women? All over the world (save some male-obsessed societies like ours) there are always and always have been more women than men. If that is so, how and why does secluding a ‘day’ to remember the overwhelming population of the world stand justified? Is it so because despite being a majority in