If to commemorate the liberty of nations we can celebrate Independance Days, I think it is only fair that we celebrate the progress womenkind have achieved in the last century and remember the hardships through which Women-the most tortured and suppressed of all beings born,have passed through centuries and centuries. Have a race been more cursed? Be it any culture, any civilization, any religion, any country & any age, Women have been kept in shadows, beaten into submission, violated and controlled & maligned beyond belief.. and all for what? for being the epitome of kindness, of love and caring, of Beauty and Grace, of making the purest of all sacrifices-giving birth! Instead of being worshipped and treated with respect and admiration for being next to God the Creator in the ability to give birth, Women have been treated as insignificant,worthless and inferior. The Perfect Creation has been vilified beyond limits.. Is it not time for us to step back and think if all our veneer of civilization is just a useless mask hiding extreme cruelty? The Modern Women represents Strength, Endurance & Dignity in face of centuries of cruelty. Lets bow to that and admire it.. not just 1 day.. everyday..