Today is International Women's Day

Today is International Women's Day! A day also also known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace is held annually on March 8 to celebrate women’s achievements throughout history across the world and also throws the spotlight on women and their rights.

Women are recognized for their social, economic, cultural and political achievements, without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

An equal world is an enabled world. How will you help forge a gender equal world?

Celebrate women's achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality. 

From us @Olomoinfo, we send shout out to all the goodwill, caring and hard working women out there. Women are a special people who deserve the most special place in our hearts. Women are meant to be loved, respected, treated kindly and cherished. They hold a special place in our life that no other can fill. Oh what a wonderful creature they are.

It is no doubt that that the world will not be complete with out women. And because of the role played by women in all spheres of life, they more than deserved to be honored and celebrated.

This is wishing all mothers, girls and ladies all over the world a Happy Women's Day!!! We love you!!

About International Women's Day (IWD)

The day trace its origins to activist movements in the early 1900s and was first codified by the United Nations during International Women’s Year in 1975. 

It's a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality,” according to the official IWD website. 

International Women's Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe.

Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike.

The day has been observed since the early 1900's - a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. 

After the Socialist Party of America organized a Women's Day in New York City on February 28, 1909, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker and others proposed at the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference that "a special Women's Day" be organized annually.

After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted by the feminist movement in about 1967. The United Nations began celebrating the day in 1975.

Commemoration of International Women's Day today ranges from being a public holiday in some countries to being largely ignored elsewhere. In some places, it is a day of protest; in others, it is a day that celebrates womanhood.

The day is an official holiday in Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zambia.

In some countries, such as Cameroon, Croatia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Chile, the day is not a public holiday, but is widely observed nonetheless. On this day it is customary for men to give the women in their lives – friends, mothers, wives, girlfriends, daughters, colleagues, etc. – flowers and small gifts (although to many this seems cloyingly old-fashioned and rather to miss the point). In some countries (such as Bulgaria and Romania) it is also observed as an equivalent of Mother's Day, where children also give small presents to their mothers and grandmothers. In Russia, the day has lost all political context through the time, becoming simply a day to honor women and feminine beauty. 

Happy International Women’s Day!