Today is International Women's Day and an opportunity to reflect on the contribution of females to all our lives. Where would we be without women, literally, unless children are really being grown in laboratories? Indeed, where would we be without feminine traits whether we are female or male?
We can rejoice in the knowledge that characteristics and approaches traditionally associated with women and weakness, are now, rightly, feted as strengths and essential elements of any well-balanced individual - caring and compassion, consensus and encouragement, nurturing and protecting.
I listened to the daily phone-in as we ate lunch today and cringed a little at the announcement of one caller who said, "I think women are just as intelligent as men". Of course it didn't need saying, but no doubt he meant well, and of course, he was only a man!
Women don't need to be thought of as equally intelligent when they are differently (and possibly more) intelligent already, we still have much to learn from them.
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