Women’s Day special: Shireen Mirza to Roop Durgapal, celebs talk about gender equality and objectification

The day encourages all people to actively choose to celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness about women's equality, and lobby for accelerated gender parity. I feel women are creator, even they can rebuild themselves. There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Looking at the theme for the year, biggest challenge for women is to accept themselves the way they are, irrespective of their shape, size, complexion etc. Women have been judged on the basis of their physical appearance since ages and therefore entire focus is mostly on how they look externally. This eventually leads to their objectification and also unnecessary comparisons which puts a lot of pressure on them to look a certain way. In this process, they lose themselves. Once women are secure within themselves irrespective of how they look, they will focus on their internal growth instead of just being a glam doll.

Every day is a great day to celebrate the amazing women in your life, but International Women's Day gives you an extra reason to do just that. It’s a day to remember we are equal. The day isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.

Supporting and celebrating women’s rights is a year-round responsibility. A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice in ourselves can be remarkably difficult. But it’s high time we wake up and speak. So the future for women gets sunshine.

Women’s Day is to bring clarity, defying the idea of differences. I'm grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life. I'm really inspired by many women's in my life. The best protection any woman can have is courage as a successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.

A woman is an epitome of beauty, wisdom and care. She has climbed the mountains and dived into the ocean. She has matched the steps with every man in the world. The Day celebrates the power of women their rights and role in our lives and society. I feel a woman can perform all the duties of a man but a man cannot do all that a woman can do.

Every day, should be celebrated as Women's Day. But we need that one day to acknowledge our courage of breaking the rigid stereotypes, and coming out as strong powerful women. This year women's day theme is 'Choose To Challenge', which means that every individual is responsible for our own actions and thoughts. The theme, further elaborates that from challenge comes change. One can call out gender bias and inequality. To seek out and celebrate the achievements of women's. Together we all can create an inclusive world.

It's the day for praising women who work hard every day to accomplish individual and professional goals. To observe this day different events take place including movements or march across the globe. There are some countries where women are not treated equally, so, in these countries, protests are observed for the liberation of women. For many people, the role of women is limited to household chores only. However, this needs to change as women deserve equal freedom and opportunities in everything like men. The world is moving towards gender equality. It is moving towards a balance between both men and women.

A change is required and is also essential for our society. It is observed that men have had more advantages in every sphere of life in comparison to women since ages. However, this needs a change as we all are humans and should be treated equally with equal rights and opportunities. On International Women's Day, everyone appreciates the women in their lives. Everyone acknowledges the worth and significance of women in their lives, and their tremendous contribution to society as well.

Be it in professional life or personal life, celebrating women is a sense of obligation to every woman in one's life. Women across the nation come together crossing all the boundaries from various cultural and ethnic groups to remember their struggle for peace, justice, equality, and development. International Women's Day is all about feeling self-worth and achieving the goals as per the potential. Besides that, women should gather the courage to cross all the hurdles in all the spheres of life to make a tremendous improvement. It is a general myth in society that women-related issues are not a big deal which we need to prove wrong.

Many people believe that the gender gap does not exist in society and efforts by individuals are not enough and cannot bring any change to the gender gap. Women's Day is all about making society realise that each individual has to work differently and changing society towards a better future.

It’s a day for celebrating women who work hard every day to achieve personal and professional goals. It’s the day of hope for changes. One of the reasons for protesting is for the liberation of women around the world. There are some countries where women don’t get equal rights. In societies, the role of women is limited to household chores. However, this needs to change because women deserve equal opportunities at everything like men.

The world is moving towards achieving gender balance. It’s moving towards equality for both men and women. The change is something that is needed and is essential. For ages, men have had more privileges in every sphere of society. However, that needs to change because we are all humans, and we should all get equal rights and opportunities.

International women’s Day is a day where everyone appreciates everything that the women in their lives do. It’s a day when everyone acknowledges the value and importance of women in their lives. The day has a great importance as it looks for the change to make society secured and fortunate for women.