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International Women’s Day: The goal is not equality, but preferential treatment
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# The radical feminists want to remake our laws in order to eradicate everything that is masculine from our culture and create a gender-neutral society.
# IWD was celebrated in order to campaign for noble ideals such as women’s right to work, to vote, and to hold public office but now it promotes a negative cultural stereotype.
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# Women should have an entitlement to equality in every field; but it is an error to mistake equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
# International theme for this year’s celebrations is ‘Financing for Gender Equality’ but despite some improvement, more women are likely to be in insecure, low-paid jobs than men.
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Michael
Mar 8 2008
Brisbane,
Australia
Rightly said and what a day to put up this Q! Leaving aside gender inequality and even equality as a whole, if women are still happy with the glum self-satisfaction not construing the changing equation outside the pigeonhole they’ve been agreeably living for so many years, I’m sorry to say, they are certainly in a precarious situation and will continue marking similar dates in a fruitless attempt to celebrate their dead womanhood for don’t know how many more years to come. One cannot beg for respect and get it...never! Don’t blame the burning flame...it's chilling out here...
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I do respect women from core of my heart but want to ask why we men don’t have a day of our own to celebrate International men's day.
Why preferential treatment?? Are they super human? the demand would create another kind of inequality. Don't talk rubbish.
No need of preferences because they are already being preferred at every place. talk about equality only.
what kind of equality are you talking about? Every married man is like slave of his wife.
Let the women celebrate one day in year because rest 364 days belong to men. Let them win the battle because we win the war every time.
Women are living in extremely bad state in several countries. We need to work for the welfare of such women.
What do you wanaa say that girls are not responsible for such incidents. You are wrong. I tell you - Ms A provokes a sick person, call him Adam, with her semi-nude appearance and vulgar acts. And Adam, who has been provoked, loses control and targets Ms B. In this case Adam is criminal and he should get severe punishment and Ms B is poor victim even she didn't wear anything wrong and she might be a sober girl. But what would you say about Ms A? Isn't she also a culprit in this incident?
I agree. They want preferential treatment. Why should women be given preferential treatment? What crime has men committed. Feminists these days are bullying men with all sorts of tricks.
International Women's Day is not a celebration of feminism but womanhood. It seems the feminists have hijacked the cause.
No society can stand on its feet if women healthcare and education is neglected. A healthy woman means a healthy family, an educated woman means whole family is educated.
We need more days like Women's Day.
We need more days like Women's Day.
@adil,
What war are you talking about? If you are winning the war 364 days a year, it’s not because of your special prowess, but because the woman lets you win the war for the sake of PEACE!
Strange, 90% of the comments from men seem to have a negative attitude against the very women they would go go back to after the debate!
Anyways, as far as I know, no woman goes to demand preferential treatment....there are times when certain issues should be voiced and IWD is one day where a women can voice her opinion. On other days as MR.Adil said, MEN are busy winning imaginary wars,so give women a ear once a year guys.....
And as far as preferential treatment is concerned, it is nothing but marketing gimmicks by savvy businesses.
What war are you talking about? If you are winning the war 364 days a year, it’s not because of your special prowess, but because the woman lets you win the war for the sake of PEACE!
Strange, 90% of the comments from men seem to have a negative attitude against the very women they would go go back to after the debate!
Anyways, as far as I know, no woman goes to demand preferential treatment....there are times when certain issues should be voiced and IWD is one day where a women can voice her opinion. On other days as MR.Adil said, MEN are busy winning imaginary wars,so give women a ear once a year guys.....
And as far as preferential treatment is concerned, it is nothing but marketing gimmicks by savvy businesses.
It’s a day of worldwide celebration for the achievements women have made, recognition of the difficulties and challenges women still face daily, and recommitment to fighting gender-based discrimination through the promotion of women’s substantive equality.
But there is still much to be done to further women’s equality.
Aboriginal women still don’t have equality in their communities in terms of property rights and representation in the governance of their communities, and are at a highly disproportionate risk of becoming victims of domestic and sexual assault.
Women are still being sold into slavery in the form of trafficked persons. 80% of all trafficked persons are women, who are forced into domestic and/or sexual exploitation.
Lesbian women are still suffering widespread discrimination, and face legal barriers to being able to care for their partners during end-of-life situations and inheriting property from their partners - even homes that they have been living in for decades.
There are different problems affecting women in other parts of the world. Women are raped en masse as part of genocidal wars in Congo. Girl children as young as 8 are married off in India, Pakistan and Nepal. Girls as young as 4 are subject to female genital cutting in northern Africa. Women are displaced in the Sudan. Women and girls are not permitted to go to school in Afghanistan. Women aren’t even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Girl children are abandoned in China. Women are forcibly sterilized in Tibet. Women are being denied access to contraception worldwide through USAID and PEPFAR, and have no way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, even when they know they risk transmitting HIV to their fetuses.
It’s pretty obvious that there is still much work to be done.
But there is still much to be done to further women’s equality.
Aboriginal women still don’t have equality in their communities in terms of property rights and representation in the governance of their communities, and are at a highly disproportionate risk of becoming victims of domestic and sexual assault.
Women are still being sold into slavery in the form of trafficked persons. 80% of all trafficked persons are women, who are forced into domestic and/or sexual exploitation.
Lesbian women are still suffering widespread discrimination, and face legal barriers to being able to care for their partners during end-of-life situations and inheriting property from their partners - even homes that they have been living in for decades.
There are different problems affecting women in other parts of the world. Women are raped en masse as part of genocidal wars in Congo. Girl children as young as 8 are married off in India, Pakistan and Nepal. Girls as young as 4 are subject to female genital cutting in northern Africa. Women are displaced in the Sudan. Women and girls are not permitted to go to school in Afghanistan. Women aren’t even allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Girl children are abandoned in China. Women are forcibly sterilized in Tibet. Women are being denied access to contraception worldwide through USAID and PEPFAR, and have no way to prevent unwanted pregnancies, even when they know they risk transmitting HIV to their fetuses.
It’s pretty obvious that there is still much work to be done.
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