International Women's Day

The day is almost here - March 8, International Women's Day. There are, of course, those who hold fast to their belief that you have to be anti-man in order to be pro-woman. Hopefully this year a few more of them will finally leave that behind and move to join the ranks of those who seek to advance the cause of the female half of our species. If such an altering of belief could be achieved each year on March 8th, it would be the small steps needed to help all of us in climbing the mountain of inequality.
There are those, of course, who believe that the cause if gender equality is one that has been fairly dealt with here in Canada. They think that if any woman still needs help with issues of gender equality, she is a nameless foreign woman who lives far away from here, in some poverty-ridden land. These people, too, need to be more aware; they need to change their way of thinking as much as do those who believe feminists are all slightly mad. All these people need to do is a little reading. They would learn about the difference between "female dollars and male dollars".They will learn that as of 2008, right here in Canada, women could expect to be paid an average of only 72 cents for every dollar that a man is paid. Since the unequal pay if being given for work of equal value, it would indeed seem that the issue sill exists even here in our own backyard.
I would like to wish a Happy International Women's Day to all of my sister, worldwide. I would like to wish the same to all of my brothers, as well. Every one of us had a mother. Every one of us owes respect to every one else. What a world we could all live in if only we could lay to rest the issues of gender inequality.