Dismantling patriarchy for a progressive world


More women in the highest positions of leadership will allow patriarchy to be slowly but surely dismantled in a rational, elegant and non-threatening way that is collaborative and acceptable to the other half that hold up the sky. — 123rf.com

The world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8 and I was a little bothered by the whole thing. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not at all against celebrating women and acknowledging their contribution to the world. I’m just against picking one measly day to do so when women deserve to be acknowledged every day of the year for all that they do.

More than half a century ago, Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung is believed to have coined the phrase “woman hold up half the sky”, a rallying cry for the nation’s Great Leap forward movement of the 1950s.

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