{"id":136,"date":"2020-03-08T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/female-business.eu\/?p=136"},"modified":"2020-10-13T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:28:59","slug":"i-celebrate-being-a-woman-i-celebrate-being-human-by-katerina-georgiadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/female-business.eu\/index.php\/2020\/03\/08\/i-celebrate-being-a-woman-i-celebrate-being-human-by-katerina-georgiadi\/","title":{"rendered":"I celebrate being a woman, I celebrate being human. By Katerina Georgiadi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\nmy diary says its March 8th. For the 46th consecutive time, the page of this\nday is also adorned by the phrase „International Women’s Day”. Among\nthe various recognized international holidays, this one carries a special\nweight and importance. What does celebrating (or rather none) that she is -or\nfeels- a woman means in 2020? Really, how was this institution established?\nWhat is the position of women today in the various societies around the world\nand what are the challenges that need to be addressed in terms of relations\nbetween the main sexes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating the female sex means celebrating the\nfundamental rights that my gender enjoys like any human being, and that I do\nnot forget the trials to which these rights have historically been subjected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ngradual evolution of women’s rights is not accidental, but as in any case in\nhuman history it is the result of fermenting and maturing new concepts and\npractices, in order to ensure that new needs emerge from time to time. Apart\nfrom a few exceptions where we encounter matriarchal societies, which either\ndate back to antiquity (Minoan culture, Amazons), or are found in some parts of\nthe Far East (Indonesia, China), overwhelmingly the societies we know\nhistorically are based on the patriarchal model of organization. This model is of great importance for how the members of each society\nperceive the role that is written off within it for the woman,<\/em>as\nwell as the possibilities intended for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nAthens of classical antiquity the woman had certain rights only within her\nhouse, the principal of which was the man of the family, namely her father or\nhusband. The last one was her guardian and the trustee of her estate. In the\nevent of the loss of her father, the woman was obliged to marry in order to be\na legal administrator of her father’s property in the absence of male\ndescendants. In the Roman family again, the woman is under the authority of the\nPaterfamilias,the role of which is assumed by her father or husband, whether itis\ncompulsory under the guardianship of her male relatives. e.g. in a commodity\nmarket, except in the name of the man who had the role of protector. This is\nbecause for many centuries the woman was not considered to have the necessary\nspiritual maturity to carry out legally binding acts, In contrast to the man,\nhence the establishment of the concept of  „weak sex”.<\/em>\nimperial throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nconcept that he wanted women inextricably linked to child-bearing and domestic\naffairs – sometimes more closely and more widely, including agricultural work –\nremained deeply rooted in human intellect for a long time, until new needs led to the revision of established practices.<\/em> Typical\nexamples such as the lack of working hands during the industrial revolution, as\nwell as in the years of the great and exhaustive wars in the Old Continent, due\nto the general conscription of the male population and the large number of\ndeaths among the combatants, led to a rethink of women’s potential in the\nfields of employment and productivity. for the first time it entered the\nworkplace in a systematic and massive manner, in particular that of the lessee,\nwhich was the prevailing model at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So\nwhile the first steps in revising the position of women had taken place, a\ndecisive impetus for the movement in favour of women’s rights was given at the\nbeginning of the 20th century by the Socialist Movement. More specifically, the\nUs Socialist Party declared in February 1909 in New York the so-called „National Day of Women” <\/em>in defence\nof the rights of women workers, which was the source of the inspiration of  1911<\/strong>the global institution that has\nnow been established. first International Women’s Days. The main  demands<\/em>  of the strikers and the demonstrators were the\nrecognition of the women’s right to take up public office, as well as the fight against\nracial discrimination in the workplace.  All these games were\nthe forerunner of International Women’s Day, which was voted on and established\ninternationally by the UN General Assembly only in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The institution of International Women’s Day is now\nof great importance, as it is synonymous with a stable and institutionalised\neffort to address the challenges that are jeopardising equality between men and\nwomen in the modern international Reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\ncountries with developing economies, but also in countries where they hold\nreligions that do not provide an equal social role for men and women, racial\ninequality is a given and recommends a daily life.<\/strong>\nof the Muslim religion. With the swell of the refugee crisis in Europe and the\ncondemnation of this practice by the United Nations General Assembly as early\nas 2012, a number of concerns are emerging about the effectiveness of the\nmeasures adopted by the various European countries to ban clitoralectomy on\ntheir territory. Especially in the case of Greece, it is characteristic that\nthe relevant article of the Penal Code refers to „persuading a woman”\nto be subjected to this practice, which legitimately raises concerns, whether\nthe legislator has understood the very specific characteristics of the method,\nwhich  is imposed<\/em>  and usually on girls  of very youngage.\n BBC the only professional\nperspective of the girl and woman is  prostitution,<\/em>in conditions of complete\nlawlessness, as witnessed UNESCOby  \u03c4\u03b1 32 \u03b5\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03bc\u03bc\u03cd\u03c1\u03b9\u03b1 \u03b5\u03af\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9\n\u03ba\u03bf\u03c1\u03af\u03c4\u03c3\u03b9\u03b1<\/em>the womenthemselves who have been interviewed.  children and adolescents who do not\nparticipate in the respective tier remain girls. But apart from the poorest\ncountries, and\nthe developed economic and technological countries should not turn a blind eye\nto the fact that the most serious manifestations of racial inequalities have now\ndisappeared on their territory.<\/strong> part of the housework. Also,\naccording to statistics collected by UN Forbes Women,\nwomen\nworldwide are paid 23% less than<\/em>men.  The world’s leading women’s football teams\namount to just 42.6 m euros. $100 million per year(!). At the same time, only\n24% of Members worldwide are women, as are 31% of roles in films featuring\nlines, 21% of film producers and 26% of people employed in it and programming\n(UN Women).  UN\nWomen According to a survey of 541 Universities of countries organized by Western\nstandards, only 23% of university professors are women.<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nmust admit that the woman does have to overcome additional\nobstacles in<\/em>theworkplace, in relation to a man, in order to be\nheard and taken seriously her work, something that we have all noticed more or\nless in the context of our daily lives; its workplace. That is why we have to\nask ourselves today in Western societies,  is it enough that women are\nnow largely employed, mostly as teachers, nurseries or secretaries? Would\nit be more legitimate to see women escape certain restrictive standards, which\nundoubtedly exist with their impact, and to strengthen her involvement in\nhealth sciences, natural sciences, computer science, sport?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside\nall these reasons, it is now a fact that significant rates of gender-based\nviolence are maintained in both more and less affluent societies, since the\ncauses of this remain linked to psychological factors and human instincts. That\nis why the United Nations has set the achievement of racial equality\naround the world as the 5th objective of sustainable development.<\/strong>.  Such a vision should be the\nprimary concern and objective of any modern society, which aspires to serve and\nprotect the value of man as such and to promote the cooperation and well-being\nof the sexes, peoples, peoples.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

** <\/em>The statistics come from Wikipedia,the\nun women’s <\/em> UN Women<\/em>  <\/em> official Instagrampage,\nthe official UNESCO website <\/em> UNESCO<\/em>  (<\/em>  unesco.<\/em> org\/en\/topic\/out-school-children-and-youth<\/em><\/a>) and the BBC News<\/em>  <\/em> website  (<\/em>  bbc.<\/em> com\/news\/science-environment-49552812<\/em><\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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