I am a strong believer in gender equality.
In the past, women were treated completely unfair. No right to vote and no education rights were the kind of thing that women had to deal with on a daily basis, to name a few.

Tomorrow is International Women's day.

Years ago, a group of women stood up to have these issues changed. It's them we have to thank for the rights we have today. However still today, the gender status is not equal. I believe that people should have no special privileges just because they have different organs in their bodies.

Thankfully there are organisations who think the same way as well as a bunch of other people in the world. I hoping by just mentioning the topic at hand has made some of you think about it.

I'm a feminist. That does not mean that I want women to be better than men. It means I want men and women to each have 50%.

Why can't women get the same pay as men? They have all studied the same things and prepared themselves for the same job. No gender has worked harder for their money.

Why can't a women be a successful business women without people questioning it? No gender is smarter than the other and success should not have to do with certain body parts you have.

Why is it that a women is forced into a commitment with a man whom she doesn't know? Marriage is a very serious commitment and no one should be forced to love someone.

Why haven't these issues been fixed? Because people don't know about it enough.
It's all very well to sit back and say you want gender equality or that you're a feminist but to be honest, that is not going to do anything.

You don't have to spend heaps of money either. You can simply sign petitions. If an organisation gets enough signatures, the amount of things they can accomplish is crazy. It forces change. It will get gender equality to happen.

If, by reading this, I have convinced you into making a change for our world then I'll leave some websites for you to find out more and sign some petitions.

And to all the ladies reading this, I hope you all have a wonderful day tomorrow. You're all beautiful and I love you.

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Find out more:
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/gender-equality/
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme
http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/international-womens-day

Do something:
http://www.globalgoals.org/girls-progress/
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/Pledge
http://www.one.org/us/take-action/poverty-is-sexist/
http://www.heforshe.org/en/take-action/education
http://girlrising.com/grow-the-movement/join-us/
https://letgirlslearn.peacecorps.gov/#getinvolved
http://www.chimeforchange.org/projects/
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/issue/women-girls/
http://www.endfgm.eu/what-can-you-do/
https://www.malala.org/take-action
http://whiteribbonalliance.org/join-us/
http://www.everymothercounts.org/pages/get-involved
http://www.girlsnotbrides.org/take-action/
http://www.thegirlgeneration.org/#!take-action-english/cutg