Women’s Equality Day – Encouraging or Discouraging? Pt 2

Where is it written that women were created to be “Second-Class Citizens”? If you believe the Bible, then you know that Jesus exonerated and raised the status of women to be equal to men in the eyes of God who is no respecter of one gender over the other. If you believe that random selection made women second-class citizens, one begs to ask and answer the questions – why are there so many alpha females in this world?  I would venture to guess that there are far more strong winning women that would increase the numbers to establish women a gender of equality – but have been squelched and pushed down by males who want to believe women are inferior aka ‘second-class citizens’ compared to them.

As a result of this universal mindset of man, women have been and continue to be victims, considered property without rights and are most likely to be abused and exploited. Refused the basic elements needed to survive as a human being, we are aware of the great injustices of discrimination that exist and so commonplace all over our “modern and civilized” world.  While women (girls included) are considered ‘second-class citizens’ in the minds of men, with little or no rights, they are and will continue to be most likely exploited by those with craven power who prey on the powerless, the uneducated, and the abused. Women and children who are uneducated, overworked, underfed or even starved are subjected to forced slavery and violence even within in and outside their families and their homes, silenced by fear, they have no safety net or haven to go to or the chance to be rescued from this deplorable and inhumane situation.

The lackluster attitude and the deficiency of laws to protect women void of rights that should be afforded to them sets women and children up as prime targets and victims vulnerable to trafficking. When our lawmakers take on the mantel as advocates and choose to fight strongly for the protection and the promoting of women’s civil, political, economic and social rights here in the United States and invite other governments around the world, they can make it more difficult for traffickers to trap their prey.  We must elect Judges who are not partial to the criminal, instead will mandate the prosecution and penalties to such a high and costly proportion that the traffickers see no value in using women and children as a commodity, and companies should also be penalized severely for the use and abuse of women and children as cheap labor sources.

One thing we can do is to start educating the next generations of women – the girls, but they have to be allowed to be born! We need to save all unborn children and give them the right to be born and then educate them so they can help develop a mindset of hope, peace, security and safety for all.  It starts with the safety of the womb – it should be a safe place, a haven of protection not a jail with a death sentence!  Every woman counts, unborn, young and old – we are all women whose voices must be heard not stifled or stilled.

Equality means nothing if the action is not there to enforce it.  Education with knowledge empowers women.  Giving women their rights is a moral imperative and essential to the progress and stability of a community and a nation. Equal opportunities for education, health care and the prospects of  decent employment gives women the stability they need to be secure as First-Class Citizens and contributors to social and economic progress which ultimately is the underpinning of a nation.

An empowered and winning woman, who raises up a God-centered family honoring the rights of all human beings is the building block for a strong and respectable life of a nation where all people have the chance to be treated as equals and no longer as ‘second-class citizens’.

Women, for the most part, fight for what is right, just, reverent, honorable, kind, loving advocates and mentors for children and women. This then brings up another question which I cannot resolve; why are women being so divisive by taking sides politically instead of being united as our former women’s rights leaders were and stand together on behalf of all women, everywhere?  What has caused the riff among  us?

There has to be more that unites us than divides us so that we can indeed be a powerful voice claiming our place as equals in society.  With opportunities for education, knowledge, laws that are fair, and equal footing in society, we have the resources to be Winning Women – resolute, strong, bold, alpha women, caring, daring, powerful, inspiring, loving, faithful, successful, tenacious, assertive, and passionate about being Winning Women!

God made us in HIS image; let’s remember who we are – special to God, His Princesses and Winning Women!

One Day to “equalize” Women is not enough, it has to be Every Day!

One Day to change us from ‘second-class citizens’ to ‘First-Class Citizens’!

One day…is not tomorrow, it starts with today!

• Are you encouraged or discouraged?

• Does this compel you to action?

• What can you do to help make a change?