Injustice is injustice, regardless of how sugarcoated it is. ⁣The short phrase for this year’s International Women’s Day could not have been more apt: Break the bias!

Biases exist within the fabrics of our society, which are targeted at subjugating women and girls within dictated confinements.

For instance, “women are emotional and therefore shouldn’t be trusted with leadership.”! That’s a common sentence drummed into the ears of our girls and boys until they begin to believe it. But again, even if it were true, since when is emotion a plague to be avoided? When, in fact, what we should actually be scared of is the lack of it.

⁣At Help Initiative, we want our daughters to prosper as much as our sons without being held back by mundane biases and inhibitions of gender expectations. ⁣

⁣If we, as a people, converge at the table of gender justice and allow our humanity to prevail over our baseless biases against women and girls, we would progress in leaps and bounds and our future would be sustainable.

We must come together and #BreakTheBias.

Happy International Women’s Day!💜