In lieu of International Women's Day (March 8th), we have a lot of things to be thankful for and many monumental achievements to celebrate. It has been and still is a challenging and heartfelt road to travel towards universal full equality for women. We as women have supported each other to prevail through times where women were only looked upon as the property of men and socially and culturally unfairly confined to domesticity. We united and empowered each other through the Industrial Revolution to gain and maintain equal rights as men, as a normative standard and not just out of timely necessity. In current times, we strive forward to break all corporate "glass ceilings" and to move beyond all boundaries put in place to beset us.
There is no apprehension or concern in that we will relentlessly come together to make progressive movement in annihilating all social, economic and political inequality. My thought pattern and wonderment is in the area of our daily social discourse and personal interaction with each other. There are times that I am left speechless after encountering other women due to the lack of camaraderie amongst us, when not gathering based on an international, national, or local woman suffrage cause, but just for socializing purposes.
There is a hidden cost that often comes with bearing the cross of fighting against injustices, women, African Americans, Jews are among the groups that know this cost all too well. In the midst of the humane war certain key virtues are attacked, stripped or made recessive whilst staying the necessary course to ensure resilience and victory. It is necessary to empower, but alongside the act of empowerment we must not stray far away from the intrinsic traits that make up the essence of women; our innate ability to nurture, care, understand, display our candid and open expressiveness towards one another and all other beings. My question then is, in the midst of empowering each other have we forgotten to laugh, seek to understand, confide, respect, and admonish one another. For as the poem "Sisterhood" states if we suffice to be genuinely friendly, our genuine unity is a social and cultural remedy that will only gregariously aid in all other causes.
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