Women should be celebrated on a daily basis. For who we are individually, and for what we do in our home life, work life, for our family, friends, and for those we meet as we go about our lives.
It’s wonderful that we can celebrate womanhood internationally, even though within some nations women are still treated as possessions and not as equals within humanity.
My view of a woman’s role in society, education, and in the workplace has changed since I was a child.
I grew up in an era where women became wives, living at home with their spouse. They had children, cooked, cleaned, decorated their home, did laundry, and tended to the needs of their husbands who worked outside that home.
Back then, women weren’t expected to attend college. If they worked outside of their home it was as a maid, cook, or nanny. They were active in church, serving within the daycare during service, at Sunday school activities, after church suppers, and church camp.
My mom, working as a cleaning lady, wasn’t viewed as an entrepreneur, running her own business. Instead, her work was considered supplemental, in support of her family and husband during hard times.
Women were submission, never outspoken. Their opinion didn’t matter.
Nowadays, women control corporations. They excel academically, welcomed within universities where they can attain masters and doctorate degrees. They can engage in any occupation they desire. They can choose to marry. Choose to remain single. Love and marry another woman, instead of a man without shame or fear of being reprimanded. They can be a single mom. They thrive in ways never imagined back in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and eras past.
Woman have become outspoken. No longer are we expected to be submissive, enduring unfairness. More and more of us no longer suffer abuse in silence. We seek help. Find help where none was available decades ago.
We support and encourage one another. We value what we do. We recognize we have talents and the desire to achieve. We care for our families and others lovingly. Our lives do not have to be drudgery we’re expected to endure.
Celebrating women internationally, even for 1 day, shines a light on everything women have to offer –celebrating how special we are!
It helps open the eyes of those who may not realize all that we do, who do not realize where we can do more, helps emphasize what it means to be a woman in yesterday’s and today’s world.
So use this day to celebrate yourself, the women in your life, or the women you see at work or in passing.
Contemplate on what your mother and grandmother’s lives were like when they were young, as they married, had their children and raised them.
God Bless Women Everywhere!
May He lift them up out of poverty, abuse, servitude, and despair.
Hug your mother, aunt, sister, wife. Tell them how much you love and appreciate them for who they are and for all that they do.
