"It's not an act of love if you force her," stated by Paris Paloma in her song "Labour,"
which makes me think, do we truly know our women's value? We should not only value women on "Women's Day" as if that's the only day they're important. We should also realize the things they have done for us. We should acknowledge our female OFWs
who make up 58% of its workforce, and other working women who work diligently for their families at home, and for themselves, and to help other people. Likewise, we should also respect women for managing to populate the earth, because essentially, aside from god, they are also our creators who have definitely suffered when carrying us in their womb, as pregnancy can cause depression.
But
how do we treat our women? According to the WHO, nearly 1 in 3 women (about 840
million globally) have experienced partner or sexual violence during their
lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000. Not only the women, but
11% of girls, meaning children who were barely 16, experienced physical or
sexual violence from an intimate partner. Not only that, but It finds 263
million women have experienced non-partner sexual violence since age 15, a
figure experts caution is significantly under-reported due to stigma and fear.
We should appreciate them every day, especially the mothers who have cared for
us and the people who have been mother figures for us. As 2Pac has said before,
"And since we all came from a woman
Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman
I wonder why we take from our women
Why we rape our women do we hate our women?
I think it's time to
kill for our women
Time to heal our women, be real to our women.
And if we don't we'll have a race of babies
That will hate the ladies that make the babies
And since a man can't make one
He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one."
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