The celebration of women’s month

Why women’s month is celebrated?

I would like to give a little more inside to the history of Women’s role in society. Traditionally women where ignored because their lives were dedicated to their homes and family and they were subjects that historians have not considered to be important. Recent interpretations of history focus more on the contributions of women—contributions that are often very different from those made by men, but still integral to understanding our past. This new focus provides us with a view of history that is more inclusive thus this is why the celebration of South Africa’s women month was initiated

South Africa's women's month:

Women workers strike in 1912, Source EarthSky

South Africa's women's month this year (August 2012), takes a look at the rich feminist struggle history and gives space to remembering the contribution of some of the anti-apartheid women activists. There are many un-acknowledged and undocumented women who fought against the apartheid regime and for women's rights issues said the African Gender Institution (AGI).

The AGI also acknowledges how far South Africa has come since the first democratic elections and how much women have contributed to this. However, there are many struggles still being fought. Violence against women and girls is a pandemic;   lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender and intersexed people face horrific abuse and often murder from homophobic and patriarchal elements; funding is hard to find and the government, local and national, is not responding. Brave women are confronting these multiple violence’s at huge risk to their own safety.

The basis of the celebration of women’s rights is focus “Women’s Education—Women’s Empowerment,” honours pioneering teachers and advocates who helped women and other groups gain access to advanced learning according to http://www.history.com/topics/womens-history-month.

Women should position themselves better in society:

I truly think and feel this is a very fair chance for women to use these rights in order to up lift themselves because many of us have right and can use them to better our position in society. Thus being equal to men in the work place and share our place in the kitchen because home and family is not only the dedication of women but of both sexes. When I was little I never understood why my mother want to be so independent and  yet never neglected her family because she would go to work and we would still sleep in clean sheets and have a healthy mean. She never got the education she wanted, but she empower herself by taking short courses here and there and earned her respect from my father because he saw her as his better half not the one that has to kneel to him because we are from a culturally based household and so are many South Africans.

I have a dream, and my dream is to be educated, empowered and to help others access what I have. I don’t want to be equal to men however I would like them to respect me the same way they would respect a men in the same position as they are. This is not because it’s my responsibility to take care of our families but because times have changed thus our roles have been adjusted.