The story of Genesis explains the wide profound abyss between the two sexes, beauty of a woman’s creation falls into intractable depths in nature. Beauty like the way female bodies and brains have been created.

Take the emotional bond we share with others; it’s beautiful to be a medium of many fruitful connections.

Human minds have created this infrastructure that reverts this multitude of beauty into thinking that women are “weaker” because they are less physically strong compared to their male counterparts. That women are “weaker” because they get too emotional and are too empathetic.

This has created a standard that women are incapable which have made women angry.

Women have been victims of sexual harassment, objectified by the media as sexual objects, been most vulnerable in poverty, and financial crisis. In the 19th century and before, women have been absolved from voting procedures, unable to maintain highest authoritative positions. Many have been thirsty for power and economic reforms ever since the industrial revolutions

and wars. In the eyes of traditional society, women are physically and emotionally weak. They are portrayed to fit in domestic roles, where the man has the economic resources to support the

family.

Human society has given man the power by saying “this is a man’s world!” — a statement which is strongly invalid in the 21st century.

Alas, there are numerous achievements that “profess” women, like the emergence of suffragists in the mid- 19th century who protested political, economic, and social reforms. We all have heard of “Jaha’s Promise” or the girl who said ‘no’ to female genital mutilation. Jaha from the Gambia fought female genital mutilation, placing it in the frontline of the Gambian government and the United Nations.

Since then, genital mutilation has been illegal in The Gambia. She has saved future generations of daughters who would have suffered pain and sexual abuse from the day they were born. Despite this, genital mutilation is still inevitable in most African countries. Child marriages is legal in many countries around the world, prominently in India, Africa, and The United States of America.

Child marriage is legal in 47 out of 50 States in the US, a country depicted as- ‘the portrait of the free world that represents gender equality’.

Additionally, women are still far behind the rat race in education, have poor access to academic resources and are forced into child labour at a young age. The establishment of the UN Women is a glorious moment for the suffragists who fought back in the nineteenth century, the involvement of feminism and so on.

Despite this, child marriages and female genital mutilation has decreased slightly, and the gender wage gap is still inescapable.

In a time of pandemic like COVID-19, this exaggerates the vulnerability that women are victims of. Being the first to be laid off, increasing the poverty line that single women must deal with having the gender wage gap. Online schooling has made it difficult for young girls and boys in Bangladesh and Africa to attend school, they are forced to remain at home.

So, let us acknowledge these women, let’s remember that the fight isn’t over.