At International Working Women's Day It is important to celebrate the steps taken in this just fight for equality. For example, women's access to university education allows them to fight for their professional future. Contributing your talent to a specific sector. However, there are still many stereotypes related to professions. This is shown by the fact that there are jobs that are still associated more with men than with women. And vice versa. It also happens that certain professionals are practiced almost in a majority by women. For example, domestic service.
Another phenomenon currently present is known as glass roof. That is to say, the fact that there are still very few women who access positions of power in the company and in official bodies. A glass ceiling that is a metaphor for those seemingly invisible but present limits in society. Limits that prevent women from advancing to managerial positions.
Another moment in which many women are aware that work-life balance can affect their career is the maternity. For a woman, doing a job interview while pregnant may mean not being chosen for that position. Even if by training and experience she is the most qualified. Some women feel after becoming mothers that they have to choose between prioritizing between one area of their life or another. Because from the social point of view they coexist with many barriers.
Fight for equal opportunities between men and women
Another point that remains to be overcome is the salary difference that receive men and women in some sectors performing the same function. This fact has been criticized even by the very Hollywood actresses who have shown how their male co-stars collected an even more millionaire figure.
But International Women's Day it also makes us aware of how the fate of a woman and her destiny is largely determined by her place of birth. On the other hand, in periods of economic crisis, the female group is especially punished. And it suffers most notably from consequences of precarious employment.
The greatest contradiction of International Women's Day is that in reality, this day shows the evidence that there are still important differences in rights and freedoms. Otherwise, this date would no longer be present on the calendar.
At International Women's Day It is important to highlight the work of feminism that promotes important messages such as empowerment. That is, the drive of each woman to be the person she wants to become. Women have lived in dependence on men for much of the historical period. Empowerment means gaining autonomy. Acquire rights. Defend a social justice that is based on the common good.
The defense for the rights of women in history does not depend on a single day. It is a universal goal throughout the year.