Today is NOT International Women's Day. It is not a day about diamond jewellery and spa sessions. It is not about pink bunnies and dark chocolate.
8th March is the International WORKING Women's Day (IWWD). Yes, that is the complete phrase.
The day was marked to commemorate the anniversary of the strike by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and is celebrated in recognition of a woman's economic, political and social rights.
The 8th of March symbolises the WORKING WOMEN'S STRUGGLE for the "Bread and Roses" – bread representing the economic struggle, and roses representing the cultural struggle.
Today is about equal rights, freedom of expression, freedom to earn and use our money, freedom to study, freedom to choose what we want to wear, who we want to love, how we want to live.
Today is about the right to education, the right to employment, the right over safe public spaces, the right over our bodies and our lives.
You can take your pink bunnies and dark chocolate and red roses and keep them where the sun doesn't shine.
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8th March is the International WORKING Women's Day (IWWD). Yes, that is the complete phrase.
The day was marked to commemorate the anniversary of the strike by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and is celebrated in recognition of a woman's economic, political and social rights.
The 8th of March symbolises the WORKING WOMEN'S STRUGGLE for the "Bread and Roses" – bread representing the economic struggle, and roses representing the cultural struggle.
Today is about equal rights, freedom of expression, freedom to earn and use our money, freedom to study, freedom to choose what we want to wear, who we want to love, how we want to live.
Today is about the right to education, the right to employment, the right over safe public spaces, the right over our bodies and our lives.
You can take your pink bunnies and dark chocolate and red roses and keep them where the sun doesn't shine.
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