For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf

March might be all about women because of it’s the spring season in most parts of the world, or maybe it’s a sale season in some shopping malls or it might because beauty salons offers their services at cheap rates?

The answer to the title question lies much in the above mentioned quotation.

March is celebrated annually as Women’s History Month to recognize women’s contributions to society. It began in 1978 when the school district in Sonoma, California, started Women’s History Week to promote the teaching of women’s history. The event was scheduled to coincide with March 8, which in 1911 the United States had declared International Women’s Day. And in March 1979, a 15-day conference on women’s history was held at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. Since then, it has been celebrated in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Australia, and Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama have each issued annual proclamations designating March as Women’s History Month.

Women’s History Month is celebrated in a variety of ways to highlight women and their achievements in every corner of the world. Public events are held throughout the month of March at which women’s achievements are lauded. This year, the University of California San Diego will host its annual induction ceremony for the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame on March 28. The University of San Diego held a series of events in March to mark the occasion; and San Diego State University held a forum to discuss the unique challenges facing women veterans.

In addition to events, media presentations highlighting women’s achievements included this year’s “25 most influential women in San Diego’s history” here on 10News.com.

But even in the 21st century, women continue to face challenges. In the last few years I’ve seen first-hand that in many parts of the world women receive less compensation for their sacrifices and compromises than men.

In my home country of Pakistan, the general perception about women has been that they were not as smart as men; it was thought that women think more by heart than by mind, in contrast to men, and they were less technically inclined than men while being more emotional. But things are getting better now with the passage of time.

In my observation, women used to think so differently and so beautifully that men just couldn’t imagine that a woman could transfer all of her thoughts and emotions from disgust to care and from sympathy to love in just a moment. She can have a tear in her eye and a heartbreaking smile on her face at the same time. In my observation, that’s something only a woman can do.

That’s the easiest task a woman can do but the most difficult task she handles is to tackle men. A woman is the only creature on this planet who can tackle men in any way, and this confrontation is on one hand the primary point of contention between the genders, and on the other hand, the most admirable and quixotic confrontation as well.

A woman has the power to heal. Somehow she can manage to live even without men in adverse situations, but a man just can’t live without a woman unless he’s terribly strong. If men think they are stronger then why they are so much dependent on women, especially in terms of balancing their emotions?

Women tend to be more sensitive and conscious. At the same time, when it comes to her work and professionalism, she takes things more seriously and all times knows what she intends to do. As pop star Madonna says, “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

The article was written on March 2014 for abc10News

Dr. Sundus

Dr. Sundus is a Media Professional; a Journalist/TV & Radio Broadcaster and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mass Communication, NUST; she has work experience in Electronic, Print, and Web Media, she has been serving Magazine Journalism since 2006, and Ph.D. in Strategic Communication from University Utara Malaysia.

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