March 8, 2023, | Updated Mar. 08, 2024 
by @JoshuaNgala

To the great ladies out there who embrace equity everywhere.

March 8th is the annual International Women’s Day A day for celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.

If you are appreciative and live in the present, you will realize that it is not only a woman’s love of nature and art that makes her royal. Not even a soft perfume or a good dinner.

The wise lady in a man’s life—mother or sister is more valuable than this. To truly celebrate women, however, we must look beyond a single day and start recognizing their worth every day.

We must value your labor, respect your contributions and honor you for who you are.

I continue to affirm to you that the measure of a man’s success is a result of a woman who has always taken parental and family life seriously. Some single mothers have always made it without medical and financial assistance.

Thank you for your hard work and perseverance.

Your strength has made many extravagant men invest and make fortunes. Many of you are ambassadors who advocate for the fellowship of human beings and its importance over that of class and gender in modern society.

I will always respect you for your character and personal efforts, struggles, and achievements.

All that you are and hope to be, as Abraham Lincoln once said, you owe to your angel mother.

She has made you what you are. Add your angel sister and wife to the list. Apart from their sweethearts, women have always guided, directed with love, and stood beside their men many times.

You have a strong sense of self-determination.

Precisely, corporate and family women always get time, despite their businesses, to think, reason, decide, choose, and act on every possibility for their families. Your perseverance to protect a family’s reputation is an honor you do not receive from the college.

You (women) are born to frame goals worth reaching. My appreciation has never diminished for the women who spiritually uplift their men and make them see God as their family pillar.

Lost souls have attended religious nourishment services due to the influence of their wives.

I still maintain, without bias, that men and women are equal. But some women are more equal than men. It is for this reason that Martin Luther King said that there is nothing in the world more tender than a woman’s heart in which piety abides.

Gender inequality is maintained on many levels by archaic cultural norms. Hence, some men of all ages still do not know they are supposed to help you!

If you are a man reading this letter, do you know why it takes energy and thought from women to plan and give a good dinner party, prepare for overnight guests, cook nutritious meals every night, and keep the house from being in constant shambles?

A big thank you to the women who are reliable and faithful.

You do not only provide comprehensive child care but also cook, do dishes, do garbage pickup, do laundry, clean up toilets, clean up children’s vomit, remember flowers, and stay at home from work. Some of you even go to the extent of cleaning the garage, mowing the lawn, and meeting family expenses.

There is no special accolade that can rival the countless little big joys you have given and continue to give men.

May the world’s sons be fair to their own and other people’s daughters and share—rather than just assisting with parental and household responsibilities.

And to the foster mothers (in the context of caring), may there always be faith, hope, and love in your lives. But maybe the greatest of those be your love for God and your love for each other.

And to those who still hold unequal beliefs within themselves. Equal rights for others does not mean lesser rights for “you” (any individual).

Equality is for all.

Happy International Women’s Day!