Thank you to those who featured me in their International Women's Day posts yesterday. Remember the Purpose of International Women's Day. A social media post is easy for those of us in our social context: western, middle-class (or above), educated, lives under a well-run government (besides popular opinion), and allowed to have a voice.

This International Women's Day (IWD) 2019, brought a flood of posts on social media visually calling out the women in people's small circles: photos of a selection of female friends, or a collage of individual female members of a person's team, paired with a statement of how these women have inspired and empowered that particular person's life on a daily basis.

Thank you to those who featured me. That is great. Everyone's social media channels were flooded with posts like this because it is so easy to do.

It's even easier for the males and females in my social context: western, middle-class (or above), educated, lives under a well-run government (besides popular opinion), and allowed to have a voice.

Friends: please don't forget the foundations of IWD. Recognise that we - employed, female Australians - are so lucky that we get invited to breakfasts, or lunch-time talks, with female speakers who are able to share their struggles and navigation through a male-dominated time. While representation of women is still skewed in many industries, we have the resources, the education systems, and the social backing to make a difference. We've got it easy. The only struggle we have as female (and male!) Australians is our own individual effort to learn, to push ourselves in the work place, to push ourselves on the sporting fields, to achieve our goals in life!

We've got it easy because we don't have to struggle for the basics. We've got it easy, because we don't live in a patriarchal society. We're lucky because we hear stories about forced female castration, forced marriages, being valued because of your sexual innocence, being silent in a room full of men. That doesn't happen to us.

Friends: please use our privilege to be the best we can be, so that we can support and fight for those who can't. Please don't close or shrink the definition of International Women's Day so that it's only exemplified to your own inner circles - we're fine. There are many women out there who don't have the same inspirational and empowering people around them, who don't have access to supportive education, health, or social systems that we do. And they are the ones who need this day, and every day of battling for gender equality, so much more than us.