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"J Young" |
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08 Mar 2006 12:42:31 AM |
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PSA: International Women's Day |
International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups
around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and
is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all
continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic,
cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate
their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine
decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of
history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate
in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata
initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French
Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity"
marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the
century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and
turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a
brief chronology of the most important events:
1909
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the
first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28
February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month
through 1913.
1910
The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's
Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights
and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was
greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17
countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish
parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.
1911
As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year,
International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in
Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women
and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold
public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and
to an end to discrimination on the job.
Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York
City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and
Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation
in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster
were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.
1913-1914
As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian
women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in
February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following
year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity
with their sisters.
1917
With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose
the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political
leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The
rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the
provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday
fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8
March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global
dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing
international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global
United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a
rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and
participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly,
International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for
change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women
who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.
--
" The truth shall set you free "
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| User: "Society" |
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| Title: Re: International Women's Day |
08 Mar 2006 01:35:06 AM |
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"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:aJmdnRsYsLJ94ZPZnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@giganews.com...
International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) [...]
As one of the feminists in the womens studies
department at a California university told me,
"Every other day is Men's Day". So, I expect
incessant praise of men by everyone to resume
on 9 March and continue through 8 March of
next year.
Oh, and if the petty feminist professors behind
their womens studies department bunker pout
that "Everything else is mens studies" then take
that goof's name and feature it prominently in
your letter to the dean of whatever school is
stuck with the womens studies department
when you demand that "mens studies" be added
as your second major -- with no additional
course load, of course, because "everything
else...".
For giggles, also post a letter to the school's
student newspaper about it.
--
Masculism is the radical idea that men
are people too.
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| User: "PolishKnight" |
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| Title: Re: International Women's Day |
08 Mar 2006 02:34:00 PM |
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Society wrote:
"J Young" <youngopinions@aol.com> wrote in message
news:aJmdnRsYsLJ94ZPZnZ2dnUVZ_t6dnZ2d@giganews.com...
International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) [...]
As one of the feminists in the womens studies
department at a California university told me,
"Every other day is Men's Day". So, I expect
incessant praise of men by everyone to resume
on 9 March and continue through 8 March of
next year.
Oh, and if the petty feminist professors behind
their womens studies department bunker pout
that "Everything else is mens studies" then take
that goof's name and feature it prominently in
your letter to the dean of whatever school is
stuck with the womens studies department
when you demand that "mens studies" be added
as your second major -- with no additional
course load, of course, because "everything
else...".
For giggles, also post a letter to the school's
student newspaper about it.
--
Masculism is the radical idea that men
are people too.
I take the position, society, that this assertion is largely
correct: Every other month is "men's month" in that
men's accomplishments are taken for granted
similar to air. So having a "Bald Left Handed
Dentist Painter's month" is a way of saying
that there are so few accomplishments by them,
that it's necessary to "raise awareness."
That's the problem with training wheels: Ultimately,
it comes across as patronizing. Even worse,
women's history month now must compete with
the other 11 special interest groups. That's a pretty
big political tent for them to fit under unlike the
1/2 interest they had before! Many women find themselves
gravitating to conservativism because they feel that
they're just another taxpayer to be taken advantage of.
regards,
PolishKnight
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| User: "Rob" |
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| Title: Re: PSA: International Women's Day |
08 Mar 2006 04:06:55 AM |
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J Young wrote:
International Women's Day
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups
around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and
is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all
continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic,
cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate
their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine
decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.
The Times March 08, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,172-2074361,00.html
At the coalface, gender equality is not so simple
By Carl Mortished
<Quote>
TODAY is International Women's Day and the European Commission,
always quick to seize an opportunity to preach and pose, has adopted a
roadmap for "gender equality". ...
What the mantra of equal pay and the statistics don't tell us is what
people want. ... There is an even lower bottom line, which is what
small children want. We know the answer to that question. They all want
the same thing, they want Mummy - all day. That is why they are never
consulted.
<UnQuote>
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| User: "Sean_MacCloud" |
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| Title: Re: PSA: International Women's Day |
08 Mar 2006 01:29:50 AM |
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J Young wrote:
crackpot nonsense
BTW, when's the next 'UN international [female] conference'?
Betch'a your life it gets fire bombed...
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