Women’s Equality Day// 26 August why celebrate Women’s Equality Day

 Women’s Equality Day

Women's Equality Day is a very important day which is celebrated every year from 1920 to 26 August. On this day, people all over the world will be able to know about women's equality.

Women's Equality Day is a very important day that promotes women empowerment in India. In today's time, equality of women is a very big issue in India. Women have become fully empowered in today's times. In earlier times women were not aware of their rights. But today's women know to ask for their rights. Every year Women's Equality Day is celebrated all over the world on 26 August. On this day, awareness of equality of women is spread from place to place.

New Zealand is the first country in the world to introduce female equality in 1893. Women had the right to vote only after independence in India, but the legal right to contest elections in panchayats and municipal bodies was achieved through the 73rd Constitution Amendment through the efforts of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. As a result of this, women have more than 50 percent participation in panchayats in India today.

Why only on 26 august

New Zealand is the first country in the world to introduce 'women's equality' in 1893. In the US, on August 26, 1920, through the 19th constitutional amendment, women got the right to vote for the first time. Earlier there, women had the status of second class citizen. From 1971 to 26 August was celebrated as 'Women's Equality Day' with the efforts of Bella Abzug, a woman advocate who constantly struggled to get the status of equality for women. 

Status of women in india

India has given women the right to vote equal to men since independence, but if we talk about real equality, the status of women is worth noting even after so many years of independence in India. Here all those women are seen, who despite all forms of discrimination have achieved a place in every field and are also proud of them. But this line also needs to include all those women, who are forced to face inequality every day because of being women in their home and society. Whether it is being a daughter, wife, mother or sister at home or being a girl in society. News letters such as molestation and rape of girls can be read in the daily news papers, but among all these women who are being tortured in their own house just because she is a woman. But Indira Gandhi and Pratibha Devi Singh Patil have held the post of President.

On the power of Delhi, Congress Kishila Dixit, AIADMK President Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu, Mamata Banerjee, President of Trinamool Congress in West Bengal and 'Bahujan Samaj Party' President Mayawati have earned a good name. Congress President Sonia Gandhi has been included among the world's strongest women. If seen in the Parliament of the country, then Sushma Swaraj and Meera Kumar are also famous in Indian politics. In sectors such as corporate sector, banking sector, women like Indira Nooyi and Chanda Kochhar have also proved their mettle. Even after some of these achievements, the success of women even today is less due to half-incomplete equality. Every year on 26 August, 'Women's Equality Day' is celebrated, but on the other hand, the second-rate treatment of women continues even today. The participation and percentage of women in each region is low.

Female literacy

Women still lag behind men in literacy rate. According to the 2011 census, the literacy rate of women has increased by 12 percent, but in Kerala where the female literacy rate is 92 percent, the female literacy rate in Bihar is still 53.3 percent. Even today the mentality of the society has not completely changed. Girls are also responsible for this to a large extent. South Africa, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka may lag behind India in terms of progress and development, but their position is better than India in the list of equality between women and men. Even after six decades of independence, women in both rural and urban areas are facing second-rate violence. Instead of patting ourselves on the achievements of a few women in the country, we should also keep in mind that in our country, women are not only victims of discrimination in office, but sometimes they also have to suffer sexual exploitation. Cases of sexual violence in public places keep making headlines every day. UNICEF report suggests that women are able to participate in civil administration. Not only this, without representation of women, work in any field cannot be edited properly and with perfection.