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Happy Women's day, week, year......

Another woman’s day. Bet your social media was flooded with messages wishing you, extolling the virtues of being a women and how ‘beautiful’ and ‘fantastic’ it is to be a women. There is deluge of messages telling us to stay fantastic, strong, blah, blah, blah…. Maybe if you are among the lucky few, you even got a day off and went to lunch/dinner with your girlfriends, caught a movie, maybe even got drunk. What the heck!! It is women’s day, you are allowed. You caught that discount sale just for all you beautiful women, smiled when the shopkeeper wished you and generally had a top of the world feeling. That is what women’s day has been reduced to for most of us anyway. Discount offers on movies, dinners, clothes and the celebration that we feel we are entitled to. But wait, pause, think, rewind. Is this what we have fought for? For centuries? We have come a long way, agreed. Today we have a right to education, the right to vote, the right to go out into the world and earn a liv...