Today Is International Women's Day!

Happy Women's Day!
In celebration of our diversity
and recognition
of our individual beauty, creativity, strength, compassion and fairness!

International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8 worldwide. The history of this celebration can be found here.

International Women's Day (IWD) is linked to the history of the movement of women workers. The first celebration was in 1907, coinciding with the march of women textile workers in New York. Starting from 1912 IWD commemorates the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City responsible for the death of 140 immigrant women workers, mostly Italian and Jewish. This tragedy motivated labor legislation to ensure better safety in workplace. 

March 8, International Women's Day

Siamo in tante siam più della metà 

lo siamo sempre state in questa umanità.

Today is International Womens' Day.The above words are rhymes chanted during feminist marchs in Italy a few decades ago. My memories from the teenager years recollect this chanting among the debate about difference between women emancipation and liberation. 

Today, March 8 2015, even Google homepage has a composite of vignettes picturing women's achievements. Yet not all women are representative of the female identity and histories.  This day should be especially a celebration of all the unprivileged women, who have been suffering from economical and social injustice.

Uncannily, in New York today  is also the first day of seasonally mild temperature, after months of almost uninterrupted harshly cold weather and snowstorms. Is spring finally coming? 

In the meantime, hoping for a seasonal and metaphorical spring to  finally arrive, I  wish:

Happy Women's Day!

In celebration of our diversity

and recognition

of our individual beauty, creativity, strength, compassion and fairness!

March 8, International Women's Day

Today is International Womens' Day.

The history of this celebration ---which marks today its 100th anniversary--- and schedule of events worldwide can be found at:
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/
http://www.google.com/events/iwd2011/
http://www.un.org/events/women/iwd/2007/

In the meantime, I want to wish:

Happy Women's Day!
In celebration of our diversity
and recognition
of our individual beauty, creativity, strength, compassion and fairness!

March 8, International Women's Day

March 8, International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries worldwide, but in United States does not receive major attention in the media and social events. I want to wish to all

Happy Women's Day, in celebration of our diversity and recognization of our individual beauty,

creativity, strength, compassion and fairness!