In rural areas, women are living the life of a slave. They as "invisible worker" contribute a lot not just to the household activities but also in other activities like fetching water from a distance. They work as a labour in agriculture farms and get only half wage as compared to men for the same work. They eat the leftover meals after feeding to the male members of the family and have to face the violence from their male counterparts. Child marriage, lack of education to a girl child and female infanticide are very common. Even if you talk about the Urban areas, you see woman as a working independent girl and talk about the equity but if you look in your households, in majority of the cases, it's the women who have to do all household activities, even if she is working equally as their male counterparts, their domestic responsibilities are not alleviated. They work two full-time jobs - one in office and other at home and not even get paid for the second one. It is the love, care and beauty of womanhood by virtue of which they love to do things for family but it becomes a problem when we started considering their love and care as their duty and take them for granted. Today, people are celebrating women's day, wishing and thanking them all over social media but at home they are the one who expect them to cook food for them, wash their cloths and ask for the equal contribution even financially as they are allowing them to work, giving them equal rights. Is this equity we all are talking about?? Who are we to give them equal right? Who are we to allow them to work? Who gave us this authority? It is their right and we are no one to give them! All these thoughts came to my mind after I wished one of my friend happy women's day and got this reply - "don't wish me woman's day, just treat me as another human" ~ AB
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