International Women’s Day
(We couldn’t let today pass without a mention).
For all the ladies, women and girls out there….A whole day just for us,
Kind of cool!!!
Or is it???
For 40 years now we have had Women’s Day on the 8th March a day to reflect on all things female…. Women’s Day has been around for about 100 years……..These days there is a ’Day’ for just about everything….
Here’s some funny US ones:
March 1: National Pig Day / Peanut Butter Lover’s Day
March 22: National Goof-off Day
April 13: Blame Somebody Else Day
May 14: National Dance Like A Chicken Day
June 9: Donald Duck Day
July 14: National Nude Day
October 25: Punk For A Day Day
and Tanya’s favourite:
June 14 is … Pop Goes The Weasel Day
(she has no idea what it is – it just sounds fun, apparently)
Anyway, the point of it all is to raise awareness, to draw attention to; the struggles,accomplishments, UNTAPPED POTENTIAL
To push for rights to encourage greater participation, to protest to celebrate and to support….
Just for a day…a web of joined up thinking – regardless of divisions and difference. A celebration of female, in all the colours, shapes sizes, ages that there are…..
Some Ladystats to be Proud of:
The two highest recorded IQ tests EVER were women!! BOOM… and girls consistently outperform boys in education across the globe.
Thee first novel was written by a woman (100s years ago, in Japan).
That the average (western women) has average of 25 pairs of shoes!!!
(If converse high tops count that’s me)….
That in 2008 kick-ass US general Ann E Dunwoody became the first women in US military history to reach the rank of 4 Star General****
YAY
But
… and there definitely is a big but!!…(and not of the Kardashian variety)
Women , on average, speak 20,000 words per day…. Men 7,000,
No Surpise There.
We’ve got stuff to say
Today is the day to use those words to speak up for the women in the parts of the World where their struggles are greater.
As women we have a duty to use our 13,000 extra words to speak for them.
About a half of the World population still doesn’t have a Women’s Day – a day to draw attention to female issues that we need address.
While it is very cool to think of all the female excellentness…
We shouldn’t need a special day for that. That is how every day should be.
What do you think about this? That In 2015, in larger US companies, more of them were headed up by men called ‘John’ ….than were headed by women!
That in 2015, 500 million women do not have private place to change sanitary protection – indeed most don’t have any sanitary products at all.
MOST. OF. THEM.
Whoah.
That despite consistently outperforming the boys, 39 million girls are not enrolled in education (Girlsrising.com )
WOMEN
- Are 50% of the population
- Do 66% of the work
- Produce 50% of global food
- Earn 10% of the incomes
- Own 1% of property.
So celebrate being a women today. And hold up all the females that stand with you all across the world.
We will be thinking, in our upcoming project. not just about our own bodies and minds – but where we, as women – fit into the World.
And how we can be Strong, Powerful, Little Ms. Kickasses for ourselves, our daughters, our Nannas, our friends… and on behalf of women everywhere!
And don’t forget to take some time to recharge… try this quick powernap now
Happy Women’s Day