Womens Day is celebrated not to belittle women nor to underate them but only to express mens' love and affection as in case of "Mothers Day" and drive home the women to their acheivements towards equality in all fields of human activity.It might not have been heard widely nor known to many that there is a day called "Mens Day" also being celebrated on first Saturday of November of ever year.Does it mean that men enjoy less equality and importance and hence a need for celebrating their day? Yes,there is a dire need to celebrate "womens Day" specifically since they enjoy a special status in society as 'weaker sex'-may be due to male chaunism partly.The age old Manu Smrithi's scription that a lady does not deserve independence as she is taken care by her father in childhood,by husband in youth and by son in oldage is still widely believed even amongst the educated circles although outwardly they profess equality for women.It is in this context and to dispel that Manu's theory does not hold good no more in the modern world where women enjoy equal rights, share equal duties,excel equally or even more in some cases and make women realise as to how much importance and recognition are accorded to them,womens day is celebrated.Such type of discussions are only hairsplitting and serve no useful purpose.Men and women are like two wheels of the life cart and the absence of either of them cripples the movement of the vehicle.Both are equally important,inevitable and inter dependent.
