International Women´s Day

International Women´s Day

By: Erreh Svaia

I'm sure is not easy being a woman in this turbulent man's world, it's admirable the way women has fought in order to achieve gender equality and make this world a better place to be, from the hostile territories of the Taliban in Pakistan, where a young Malala Yousafzai set an example standing against discrimination and intolerance, raising her voice in defense of girls education at schools and becoming an icon for women's right to get an equal chance to get education.

In the center of Europe, a woman has stood up against intolerance, German chancellor Angela Merkel has fought against radicalism, nationalism and discrimination in Europe with intelligence, Merkel´s is a project of integration and globalization, one to stand against Europe's intolerant, nationalist past that led to so many bloody conflicts, Merkel has been at the front of Europe's project of migrant integration, a hard task that has put the continent at risk of disintegration, but one that if succeeds, could hold the key to Europe's future.

The USA have experimented quite a few changes in recent years, Obama became the first Afro-American president of the nation, and now, almost eight years after, Hillary Clinton could become the first woman to be in charge of the White House, Clinton's possible presidential campaign could achieve historical status in what could be a race against potential Republican candidate Donald Trump hate and intolerance campaign.

In the next couple of years México could have again a woman running for the presidential candidacy, Margarita Zavala, the potential candidate for right wing party PAN has shown a strong acceptance on the national surveys, a possible realization of her campaign could give México its first woman in Los Pinos presidential house.

Women are undoubtedly changing the world, they have come a long way and struggled to achieve a more prominent place in society, there are places where equality is better achieved like in Sweden, and places where women are still treated really bad, president Park Seun Hye has the enormous task of changing South Korea, one of the lowest gender equality ranked country in the developed world, while president Dilma Rousseff struggles in Brazil against a big corruption case against her administration.

For the love of our mothers, sisters and daughters we should all fight to make this a better and more integrated place for everyone.