Interational Women's Day - What Is The Point?

[dave50]

Does anybody know?

[Mamyalynne]

https://www.internationalwomensday.com/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day

Aims will no doubt be outlined somewhere in those links.

[dave50]

Calling for gender balance is a laudable aim but any organisation should employ on merit only, not to make up some arbitrary number or percentage.

[Canary42]

What is the point of many of these "days" etc.

Did you know for example that this is National Pie Week ?

[youngmafbog]

Who knows, there seems to be a 'day' for everything these days.

[youngmafbog]

March 14th is the best 'day'

[pumpjack]

bloody stupid , wonder do they have it in saudi ?

[Mamyalynne]

I'm looking forward to March 20th - enforced happiness and speaking French.

[JF85]

"... any organisation should employ on merit only, not to make up some arbitrary number".

I could hardly agree more, but there has always been a tendency for those in the positions to appoint people tend to choose others similar to themselves. I am not saying this is necessarily wrong, but there is often more than one candidate who is appointable among a group of very similar abilities. It does no harm to choose the person who is slightly different to the rest, and can bring benefits. The existing workforce are usually able to adapt to having a woman amongst them, or a person of a different religion or ethnicity; if they aren't, are they really the best model for choosing future employees?

A new perspective, however, can bring untold benefits. Having a woman in the team might have prevented Gillette, for example, thinking it was a good idea to charge more for razors simply because they are pink.

Women's Day, however, is about celebrating women's achievements, oftentimes overlooked. There was a round on University Challenge recently about a newspaper printing belated tributes to people whose deaths had previously been ignored by that 'paper simply because they were female. Ada Lovelace was the starter for ten.

Similar stories are now being told in films such as On the Basis of Sex or A Private War, and the importance of Clare Hollingsworth's contribution to war reporting or Rosalind Franklin's in the mapping of DNA.

I am sure some will find this objectionable, but tough. Live with it.

[Mamyalynne]

They haven't recognised it in Saudi for long Pump, but the answer is - Yes.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-first-ever-womens-day-riyadh-ultra-conservative-islamic-kingdom-guardianship-driving-a7563586.html

[MargoTester]

http://internationalmensday.com/

I wondered it there is International Men's Day - apparently there is.

[youngmafbog]

There is Margo, sometime in Nov I think.

But Mar 14th is the best 'day' for Men!

[mushroom25]

is there a gender fluid day?
or a non-binary day?
or a polygender day?

[Mamyalynne]

Don't know but you could start one.

http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/

[Arksided]

Wow is it really stop whinging day ;-)

[dannyk13]

inter rational Womens Day- an oxymoron( gets coat ready)

[Old_Geezer]

It's just to highlight that, unlike here in the west, it's not women's day every day elsewhere.

[dave50]

Mushroom25 - is there a gender fluid day?
or a non-binary day?
or a polygender day?
You jest but it wont be long, just wait an see.

[Mamyalynne]

I have never quite understood this attitude to 'days' - if they don't impinge on your day to day life, what harm are they doing?

It takes effort to start something up that may or may not bring some good, it takes very little effort to dismiss those trying.

[mushroom25]

//just wait an see. //

well i'm already seeing criticism of international women's day as being "way too Cis" - implying that the day doesn't include women with penises....

[bainbrig]

EVERY day is international men’s day...