International women's day

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8 March is International Women’s Day - devoted to celebrating the achievements of women và seeking gender equality. The theme this year is #BreaktheBias - and campaigners are urging people to điện thoại tư vấn out gender stereotyping & discrimination when they see it. But when did International Women’s begin & why vì chưng we still need it today?
“Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is the unfinished business of our time, and the greatest human rights challenge in our world.”

It began life as National Women’s Day in the United States back in February 1909. The following year, at the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Denmark, women’s rights activist Clara Zetkin called for an international women’s day khổng lồ give women a greater voice lớn further their demands for equal rights.

It was unanimously approved by the female attendees from 17 countries, including Finland’s first three women MPs. International Women’s Day was marked for the first time in March 1911 - and the date was fixed as 8 March in 1913. The United Nations celebrated it for the first time in 1975.

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International Women’s Day is celebrated as a national holiday by countries across the globe, with women often given flowers and gifts - và there are IWD events in major cities worldwide.

On 8 March, 1914, there was a women’s suffrage march in London, calling for women’s right khổng lồ vote, at which high-profile campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested.

In 2001, the internationalwomensday.com platform was launched lớn reignite attention for the day, celebrate women’s achievements & continue to hotline for gender parity.

On the centenary in 2011, sitting US President Barack Obama called for March khổng lồ be known as Women’s History Month. He said: “History shows that when women & girls have access to opportunity, societies are more just, economies are more likely lớn prosper, & governments are more likely lớn serve the needs of all their people.”

The World Economic forums has been measuring gender gaps since 2006 in the annual Global Gender Gap Report.

The Global Gender Gap Report tracks progress towards closing gender gaps on a national level. Lớn turn these insights into concrete kích hoạt and national progress, we have developed the Closing the Gender Gap Accelerators mã sản phẩm for public private collaboration.

These accelerators have been convened in ten countries across three regions. Accelerators are established in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, & Panama in partnership with the InterAmerican Development bank in Latin America & the Caribbean, Egypt & Jordan in the Middle East & North Africa, và Kazakhstan in Central Asia.

All Country Accelerators, along with Knowledge Partner countries demonstrating global leadership in closing gender gaps, are part of a wider ecosystem, the Global Learning Network, that facilitates exchange of insights and experiences through the Forum’s platform.

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In 2019 Egypt became the first country in the Middle East and Africa lớn launch a Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator. While more women than men are now enrolled in university, women represent only a little over a third of professional and technical workers in Egypt. Women who are in the workforce are also less likely to lớn be paid the same as their male colleagues for equivalent work or khổng lồ reach senior management roles.

In these countries CEOs & ministers are working together in a three-year time frame on policies that help lớn further close the economic gender gaps in their countries. This includes extended parental leave, subsidized childcare và removing unconscious bias in recruitment, retention & promotion practices.

If you are a business in one of the Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator countries you can join the local membership base. If you are a business or government in a country where we currently vì chưng not have a Closing the Gender Gap Accelerator you can reach out to lớn us to explore opportunities for setting one up.