#8March - #IWD2016 - #PledgeForParity
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”
– Maya Angelou
“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” – Susan B. Anthony
About International Women's Day 2016
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.
International Women's Day (IWD) has been observed since in the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women's Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women's network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women's Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others.
"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to anyone organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights," says world-renowned feminist, journalist and social and political activist Gloria Steinem. International Women's Day is all about celebration,reflection, advocacy, and action - whatever that looks like globally at a local level. But one thing is for sure, International Women's Day has been occurring for over a century - and is growing annually from strength to strength.
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” – Madonna
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn
“Women
have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from
women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for
the mother who held them as infants.”
- Coco Chanel
Performers dressed in period costume
re-enact a march on Parliament by the
suffragettes during a rally by feminist organisations to demand equality
for women in London. (Reuters)
“Honor
your daughters. They are honorable.” - Malala
Yousafzai
“You
see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman
with a dumb guy.” -
Erica Jong
“After
all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not
smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one
morning and thought, 'I'm enough'.” - Anna Quindlen
“Women
have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from
women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for
the mother who held them as infants.”
- Coco Chanel
 |
Performers dressed in period costume
re-enact a march on Parliament by the
suffragettes during a rally by feminist organisations to demand equality for women in London. (Reuters) |
“Honor
your daughters. They are honorable.” - Malala
Yousafzai
“You
see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman
with a dumb guy.” -
Erica Jong
“After
all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not
smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one
morning and thought, 'I'm enough'.” - Anna Quindlen
 |
| A Femen activist, Sarah Constantin, is hanged from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge to call attention to the large number of executions in Iran as she stages a protest against visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016 |
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