InternationalWomensDay: Equal rights for women essential to attaining a balanced world
‘Balance for Better’ is the global theme for the 2019 commemoration of International Women’s Day – observed annually on 8 March. As we mark this special day, it is timely to reflect on the complementary roles of women and men, and how understanding of this and ensuring their equality can lead to a more balanced and peaceful world.
Despite significant improvement in the status of women and girls in the last few decades, women are frequently not treated as equals in their families or in society, and the conventional beliefs that women are inferior to men make them easy targets for anger, discrimination and violence. Women play a central role in the development of families, communities and nations. Their empowerment and the attainment of their rightful and equal status with men, requires profound changes in the minds and hearts of both men and women. It begins with the understanding that gender equality is not only a desired condition for the common good, but a dimension of human reality.
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