Happy International Women’s Day
March 7, 2007 by kate baggott
Filed under Mental Health
March the 8th is International Women’s Day. In North America and much of Western Europe it is a day of activism in certain quarters of the women’s movement. It is a day to remember the women who fought to have their labours recognised as valuable and necessary. It is a day to give thanks that we are persons under the law, exactly the way it should always have been. It is a time to remember in some countries on this planet, donkeys have better lives than women simply because to be a woman is to deserve disrespect.
In other places, though, International Women’s Day is not a solemn observance. It is a celebration.
It is a celebration that combines elements of Valentine’s Day and Mothers Day. In Bulgaria, the country of my husband’s birth, it is when women of all ages receive flowers and little tokens of appreciation. It is also when they send each other greetings and congratulations. Having married into this culture, I am convinced that I have met some of the hardest-working, strongest and most loving women in the world.
Bulgaria, recently, is a land of trouble and tremendous hope, but hope can only triumph under the influence of these women.
I hope that as mothers, grandmothers, sisters and aunts, they all find plenty of reasons to celebrate on March the 8th.
I wasn’t aware. Thanks for informing me!
I’m definitely marking my calendar so that I don’t miss it next year! Thanks!
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I posted about International Women’s Day and did something a bit unusual to celebrate. I won’t take advantage of your hospitaltiy by posting a link other than the one in my siggy, but you’re more than welcome to use that to find my post if you like.
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I think it is so interesting how different the celebrations of this day are in other countries.
My hope as a women is that one day all women everywhere will have equality.
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