International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) is an annual global celebration and its objective is to celebrate social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the globe. The day is also aimed at bringing awareness to the need to grow equality of women in society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first celebration\u00a0took place\u00a0on the 8th<\/sup>\u00a0of March in 1911\u00a0where it gained support of over a million people.\u00a0Today, International Women\u2019s Day is celebrated by all people\u00a0around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n It is without a doubt that as individuals we are responsible for what we choose to engage ourselves with, which in return influences our way of thought and actions. This then means we can all effectively decide to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, widen perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s accomplishments. We can all help make a gender-equal world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gender equity is not an issue\u00a0or subject that needs the involvement of\u00a0women, but it is a social\u00a0responsibility we all<\/strong>\u00a0have to\u00a0engage with. Gender equality is fundamental for economies and communities to grow vigorously. A gender-equal world can be more beneficial, wealthier and increasingly amicable.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The IWD 2020 campaign theme, \u201cAn equal world is an enabled world<\/em><\/strong>\u201d\u00a0is drawn from an idea of ‘Collective Individualism.’\u00a0We are all part of a collective. Our individual activities, discussions, practices and mentalities can affect our society.\u00a0Collectively, we can get\u00a0make change happen.\u00a0Collectively we can each\u00a0make a contribution\u00a0to\u00a0becoming a\u00a0gender-equal world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n On March 8th<\/sup>\u00a0you can show your support by striking a\u00a0#EachforEqual<\/strong>\u00a0pose. Put your arms\u00a0in front\u00a0of your chest parallel to each other and strike\u00a0the #EachforEqual\u00a0pose to\u00a0motivate\u00a0millions for people around the world\u00a0to\u00a0take ownership and support\u00a0International Women\u2019s Day. Share\u00a0your\u00a0women empowerment messages online using the hashtags #EachforEqual and #Tech2EndGBV.\u00a0Keep the spirit of gender equality alive throughout the year and not just on the 8th<\/sup>\u00a0of March!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) is an annual global celebration and its objective is to celebrate social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the globe. The day is also aimed at bringing awareness to the need to grow equality of women in society. The first celebration\u00a0took place\u00a0on the 8th\u00a0of March in 1911\u00a0where it gained support of over a million people.\u00a0Today, International…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phambano.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}