It’s fitting that it is the month that celebrates women, starting on the with International Women’s Day on the 8th and concluding with Mother’s Day on the 22nd.
The colour yellow with all its associations sums up the challenges faced by modern women all over the world. Yellow is the colour of positivity and enlightenment, honour, loyalty and joy but it also has a dingy side which represents caution, sickness and jealousy.
We know that women have many faces and roles but one role that is often overlooked is motherhood; women are the bringers of life, the nurturers and builders of families. But today we don’t always appreciate the importance of motherhood and a mother’s role in supporting the next generation, to fight for them to have a great start and to protect their childhood. This is not to denigrate the role of fathers, who are equally important, but I want to celebrate the woman’s role which is too often reduced to a balancing act of domesticity and childcare.
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