Although the arrival of civilized society has reversed the traditional discrimination against women, we will find that while making great progress in safeguarding women's rights and interests, we cannot help but realize that due to the influence of historical and cultural traditions and the imbalance of economic development, the disrespect and discrimination against women in real life is still very serious. Some women's rights and interests in employment, labor security and women's fourth-stage protection cannot be properly safeguarded due to poverty, single labor skills and lack of cultural literacy and legal awareness; In social life and family life, women are subjected to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, abandonment, beatings, injuries and psychological cold violence by their husbands, and the phenomenon of abducting and selling women in some poor areas is still very common and serious.
I have never been clear about what Women's Day is to commemorate and what is worth commemorating. Looking up the information, it says: March 8 every year is International Women's Day. The appearance of this festival shows that the women's liberation movement has been recognized and affirmed by the international community, feminism and women's sense of autonomy have improved, and the inequality and gap between men and women have gradually disappeared. The formation of this phenomenon has a great influence on women who hold up half the sky and participate in social construction. In the past, the traditional concept of "men dominate the outside and women dominate the inside" no longer dominates the structure of a family, but in the pace of radical prosperity, the participation of women, who account for half of the population, is of great help to affirm social prosperity and progress. (abstract)
It is really hard to see that women hold up half the sky, men and women are equal and women are liberated. I do know that the former three wives and four concubines still have a market today, and they are getting worse and worse, which has become a manifestation of men's success today; For the same position and work performance, women's wages and bonuses are much lower than those of male colleagues; The job advertisement states that women in all types of jobs are limited to under 25 years old; If women in the workplace get married and have children, they will be kicked out immediately (a better way to put it is to leave their jobs without pay, but if they go back for a year or so, their original jobs may be lost); If you are infertile after marriage, the wisest thing to do is for your in-laws to allow you to adopt a child, but most of them can only end in divorce. The idea that "there are three unfilial things, and no posterity is the greatest thing" still persists; As for rural areas, there are more places that discriminate against women, and the list is endless.
If we must say that the status of women has improved, it may be manifested in some dark sides. People's canaries and "ladies" engaged in special occupations hold their heads high and calmly go in and out in people's envious eyes. In the past, people like this were all drowned by spitting. People always go from one extreme to the other. A society that laughs at prostitutes without laughing at poverty is healthy, on the contrary, it must be morbid to laugh at poverty without laughing at prostitutes.
Has the status of women really improved now? Or do the majority of female friends feel good about themselves? Watching all kinds of media advertisements, I keep telling you that as a woman, you should lose weight (now think about how happy you were in the Tang Dynasty), want a beauty salon (breast augmentation, wrinkle removal, lip tattoo and nail polish. Anyway, it's beautiful to toss around your body parts in Chengdu, but it's not your own) and make up (how dare you go out without makeup? Don't say that others will call you a yellow-faced woman, and your own self-esteem will be hurt. You should be beautiful enough (dress with taste and style, depending on how petty bourgeoisie women live and copy), and then you should wash your husband's clothes with Diao brand washing powder, wash your son's hands with Shufujia soap, and cook for your family with Tai Fang kitchen utensils. In short, you have to go to the kitchen under the hall. Of course, you have to have a career, otherwise people will say that you are not a new woman. To ... in short, you must learn all the ways to please men.
There may be female friends who want to say that you are extreme, and the external image beauty is also a sign of self-confidence. But how convincing is this defense? The ancients said that "a woman likes herself." If you really want to show your confidence, you can hide at home and look in the mirror alone. The biggest thing is to ask a few close friends to comment. I remember a writer named Bi Shumin, who almost let all her sisters scold her to death because she wrote a plain face facing the sky. It can be seen that women's self-confidence must be expressed through cosmetics.
It stands to reason (according to my own understanding) that Women's Day is for married women. Little girls can celebrate Children's Day and May 4th Youth Day when they are at school. Only on this day will a tired woman get her husband's concern, "Today I cook and you have a holiday." Alas, this is March 8, and it seems that only this day will be remembered and respected by women.