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# President Tokayev Greets Women on March 8: Why This Speech is an Insult
- URL: https://www.qazleft.work/president-tokayev-greets-women-on-march-8-why-this-speech-is-an-insult/
- Published: 2026-03-08T09:09:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-08T10:16:36.000Z
- Description: While the Akorda praises "female wisdom," we see a mandate for exploitation. A leftist critique of President Tokayev’s March 8th address and the myth of "resilient" unpaid labor.
- Author: orgKazleft
- Tags: ENG

Мақаланың [қазақша](https://www.qazleft.work/priezidient-tokaiev-8-nauryzbien-kuttyktady-bul-iieldierdi-nieghie-rienzhitiedi/) нұсқасын осы жерде оқыңыз. Прочитать статью на русском можно [здесь](https://www.qazleft.work/priezidient-tokaiev-pozdravil-kazakhstanok-s-8-marta-chiem-ono-oskorbliaiet-zhienshchin/).

Every year on March 8, the Akorda (Presidential Palace) releases a text that, in any fair society, would be called a "manual for exploitation." While state media repeats sugary words about "wisdom and beauty," we at **Qazleft** say it clearly: Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has insulted the women of Kazakhstan. He is trying to hide systemic oppression behind "flower-power" paternalism.

Behind the poetry about "female nature" lies a cold economic calculation: how to keep women working for free to cover the failures of a neoliberal economy. Here are the facts.

## The Insult of "Resilience": Glorifying Unpaid Labor

> **The Quote:** *"Many burdens lie on your shoulders... women always remain the embodiment of resilience."*

**The Reality:** The President is praising us for surviving the very conditions the state created. What he calls "burdens," leftist economics calls the **crisis of social reproduction**. In Kazakhstan, women spend 3 to 4 hours more per day on unpaid domestic work than men.

The state saves trillions of tenge on nurseries, hospitals, and elderly care because women do this work—"resiliently" and for free.

- **Qazleft’s Position:** We don’t need compliments on our endurance. We demand a **7-hour workday** and **public investment in social infrastructure** so that the "second shift" at home is no longer a mandatory gender punishment.

## The Biological Cage: Personal Agency vs. "Female Nature"

> **The Quote:** *"This is the main secret and the natural essence of the feminine — to stop wars and affirm peace."*

**The Reality:** This is a direct attempt to strip women of their political agency. We are being reduced to a biological function, a "natural force" meant to soothe and inspire everyone. It’s a convenient lie: why build working institutions for human rights if you can just blame women for not "inspiring" peace?

- **Qazleft’s Position:** Justice is not a "natural instinct." Justice is a **radical law against domestic violence** and **full legal rights for the LGBTQ+ community**. A woman is not a "peacekeeper" by birth; she is a political subject with the right to anger and struggle.

## Economic Hypocrisy: "Success" Built on Poverty

> **The Quote:** *"Kazakhstani women successfully prove themselves in various fields—from education and medicine to science and business."*

**The Reality:** This is pure cynicism. Education and medicine in Kazakhstan are the lowest-paid sectors, and they are dominated by women. The President praises women for "success" in fields where the state has set poverty-level wages. Meanwhile, the **gender pay gap** in our country remains around **30-35%**.

- **Qazleft’s Position:** While the National Bank chokes the economy with high interest rates, women’s real income is falling. We demand a **progressive tax** (up to 55% for top earners) and wages for teachers and doctors at **300-500% of the median**.

## The Constitution as a Trap

> **The Quote:** *"The project of the Basic Law is intended to strengthen the protection of motherhood, childhood, and the institution of marriage."*

**The Reality:** This rhetoric treats a woman only as an attachment to the "institution of marriage." They try to "protect" us by tightening patriarchal ties, not by giving us economic freedom.

- **Qazleft’s Position:** Real protection means a **minimum wage of 300,000 tenge** and **democratization of property**. We need the nationalization of strategic industries and 50% management by workers' councils. Only by owning the country's resources will women truly be free.

Tokayev’s greeting is an "ideological sedative." We are asked to be "honest, energetic, and law-abiding" in a country where assets belong to oligarchs and violence against women is treated as a "family matter."

**We at Qazleft refuse your flowers.** We demand:

1. **Confiscation of oligarchic assets** (50 trillion tenge) for social needs.
2. **Elimination of the "motherhood penalty"** through mandatory paternity leave.
3. **Direct democracy** and the abolition of the presidency.

**March 8 is not a spring holiday. It is a day of struggle for liberation from your "inspiring" oppression.**

Join Qazleft! Together, we will take back what is rightfully ours.

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