It is Women’s Day? - Inspire Inclusion

International Women's Day.

Is it a day to celebrate, to think, to reach or to stand on the barricades for equality?

According to wikip, Women's Day has been 'celebrated' since 1912 in the Netherlands but I never heard from it during my childhood and I doubt my parents and grandparents did. If you ask me wikip made it up to make us dutchies look better.
If you believe women and men are treated the same, women earn the same if doing the same job you are wrong. If you believe the police believe you if you are molested or raped you are wrong again. Perhaps if you are lucky they won't laugh in your face.

While many women in Europe worked Dutch women stayed home and raised their children. This changed for about 30-40 years or so due to campaigns of the government. By now many are overworked, depressed and the number of heart attacks among them increased. Women their lives didn't improve since they had a job next to being a mother and housewife to many it is a must, the only way to stay alive.

There's a huge difference between a housewife and a houseman I know all about it and so did our housekeeper who switched with her husband and became the breadwinner. All he did was drag himself out of bed, smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee.

I live in a society where everyone is confused.
It's clear men and women can't always do the same. We no longer know what is expected and no matter how hard we try in a men's world it is never good enough. This is what centuries of feminism have brought us. We are no longer female because we have to buckle up and be a man.

March 8 is not the day I celebrate and if it's with the entire family, men included.

As a mother, friend, neighbour and so more it's my duty too to make people aware of the world we are living in, a world filled with stress, depression and worries in many cases women have to take care of Ladies, ask for help, delegate tasks! Ask, ask, ask and do not care if that task isn't done as perfectly as you had it in mind.

A better life for women is worth fighting: less violence and stress
Abuse, dear ladies, starts with us. We are the ones who give birth to criminals, rapists and all those men who mistreat women. I ask you ladies how can this be, what has happened to you to accept such behaviour? What went wrong, but also why is it you point at other women and drag them through the mud?

If we want a change we have to ask ourselves: what role do I play? What can I do to make the lives of women (and men) easier, acceptable, better?

I can't help noticing that if it comes to women they are rarely loyal to females.
Too easily we blame men for all the misery done to women. But if you look down on housewives, single mothers, women with a career, sexual workers, women exploited by their fathers and brothers, those who are satisfied with their 'old fashioned' role as wife and mother only, the servant, maid, poor farmer's wife or that young girl that tries to better her life and call the elderly women useless, point fingers, gossip about and scold at them.

I ask you: What do you expect to change on a day like March 8, 2024?

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28-2-2024
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