Progress on women's rights globally has been under threat for ages, whether it be the Taliban literally making it illegal for women to speak, or misogynistic politicians grabbing positions of power in the West, or violence against women and girls in modern conflicts, it is unjustifiable. Women are second-class citizens, and they shouldn't be.

It is through dismantling not just the patriarchy, but the systems that underpin it's oppressive force, like that of colonialism, capitalism, and war for resources that women's liberation can be achieved.

Token gestures like letting (some) women operate motor cars papers over deep-rooted state-sanctioned misogyny. It does not do anything to undo the world's oldest prejudice and the world's most internalised discrimination.

You are not lesser for being a woman, you just are a woman.

Today, we celebrate this, but a woman's work is never done, after all.