The 8th of March was International Women’s Day, and the theme this year was “Choose to challenge.
This is a call to make a conscious choice to speak up and challenge not just gender bias but also racial and economic inequality. From challenge comes change and a path to a fairer, better world.
Women learn faster in any field of education and can support themselves in case of anything in the world.
In the case of South Sudan, we have intellectual women in the government and politics, managers who stand tall to back up their equal rights, and today they are standing firm in promoting others in South Sudan. There are two vice presidents and many others who stand out for the women’s rights positions in the world. They can now fight against violence in any way round in any society across the globe, which represents 35% affirmative action.
The government should strategically focus on empowering rural women for better improvement of food security that leads to durable peace that the country has been searching for since 2013. All actions of the rural women are productive in terms of societal and human growth, and these rural women across South Sudan play an effective role in food security and social cohesion.
Rural women across the country are game changers in terms of food security. Food security is a great factor for generating societal stability that leads to durable co-existence in the country, and if more women are equipped, the country will lead in terms of development and stabilizing security in the country also through other activities, for example, women representing the country through football associations, which is a good thing. There is nothing that, when thought of by women, they will be unable to do, and they are very intelligent.
I urge the government of South Sudan empower women in leadership in the country by opening up more educational sectors, for example, engineering training centers and construction skills, and recruiting young women to political parties, among others.
As this month is still for celebrating International Women’s Day, the country should not forget the rural women who stood during the liberation struggle that ended with signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), leading to independence of the country. They participated through preparing meals for the SPLA to succeed from the Sudan government, and also some women are well in business sectors; if they could be supported by the government, they would excel and develop faster than other women in other countries.
This Women’s Day shows all possibilities of women presenting themselves in the country through working hard and gender equality because women think wiser than men sometimes in decision-making and in planning developmental programs, and everything is just a source of happiness.
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