JoelAparecioBernasor

At first, I feel awkward, to write a prose about a women, because first and foremost I am not a woman but since my mother is a woman, I have two sisters which are women I feel oblige to pen this little prose for the International Women’s Day Celebration, which, we also celebrate as, I belong to a Non Government Organization which provide capability building to women, mothers and housewives.

The theme, I am woman based on my understanding and perception is not only, a declaration of physically, that she is a woman, a female but an assertion of her rights as a woman in many aspects of life particularly in home, as a young girl to a lady, to a mother, which moulded her physically, mentally, culturally and socially of her role to be played in home, community and society, in work and society.

The resiliency and sustainability of a woman is amazing and marvelous, even in the time of uncertainty and challenges, she naturally develop a sense of creativity and resourcefulness, in order to survive especially if her children relied to her in terms of daily living or she is a bread winner of the family. Her capacity to make self sacrifice just to make her children and family live and sustained in the midst of crisis is a thing to be given an attention She is a woman, degraded by the patriacrhal society as weak and feeble but in reality, she is not and will never, she is like a bamboo tree that when a storm comes, no matter how strong the wind, it will just sway and when peace will come, the bamboo will will simply return to her old position while others fell down and died Being a woman is being resilient, unbreakable spirit in the midst of all challenges in life and for many years working with women, I observed something of the women, their capacity for housekeeping, not a physical housekeeping, but in terms of financial housekeeping is excellent, they wanted to be sure that everything will be appropriated based in what is planned and budgeted

Finally, I AM A WOMAN is an assertion of her rights and equality in home, work, community and society. It is a dream that someday will be realized particularly in a society where women where vehemently oppressed and deprived of their basic rights due to many reasons and conditions. I AM A WOMAN is a declaration that she, too, is a human being, not a property of man, she has emotions and rights to grow, developed, improve and she had rights to educations, equal remuneration and promotion and other aspects which only granted to men.