The International Woman's Day

Subject: International Women's Day

My head is reeling with the continuous babble of "International Woman's Day". The continuous claim of injustice and abasement by men. The insistence that "they" are being treated unfairly.
Of course one could look at the gender stereotypes and claim that the pay gap which certainly exists is purely originated by gender. That it has nothing to do with any other cause and that the equality drive will lead us to parity.
I have mentioned in the past that in these islands, the Prime Minister in two of the three countries is a woman. That the political leader of the segment which sees itself as part of the British Isles, Northern Ireland is also a woman. That in those bastions of male endeavour The Police and the Fire Service is each led by a woman, even though by far the largest part of the workforce are men.
The changing face of society in which the woman used to stay at home to bring up the children (perhaps the most responsible job society can task anyone) has been replaced by either women hurrying back to work with their pregnancy barely over or single parenthood with all the selfish claim most, if not all, this situation places on both the State and I would contend, the child.
The drive to have it all inevitably means that something or someone loses but in the shrill innuendo, if one were to question this state of affairs, men have become frightened mute, incapable of raising the rational that "the movement" is led by wealthy
individualistic women who have gained the very system they decry.
Girls are out performing boys at school and in university and yet their position in the boardroom does not reflect that success. Is it that the male preserve in big business is based on the 'old school tie' and patronage. Does this patronage not also impinge on the career paths of boys from less privileged backgrounds. Isn't privilege largely gender blind.
Women are becoming ever more fixated on their gender as the 21st century progresses.
The Me Too # has gained tremendous traction especially across the media as abuse against women is adjudicated by headline assassination. The ins and outs of who did what to whom and the suggestion that "power" lies at the base of all these claims by women of abuse the event stretching back 30 years and more, has at its core the determination of power. But power comes in many forms and women have held tremendous power over men since evolutionary time began.
The woman's  power is if not more potent, their inalienable rights over children, their voice in court, heard with far more sympathy than men and their sentence when found guilty strongly mitigated by their sex.
We are of course talking of the West, not Africa or Asia where Patriarchalism is as strong as ever. Patriarchal societies where woman really are chattels with no future.
This is not to say that women don't have a story to tell but in every story there is always two sides and 'today' we have only heard one.