What is international women’s day? why does it happen? and what I’ve learnt about it is exactly the questions I will be answering in this short blog post.
What is IWD? Well internationals women day is a world wide celebrated event held every year on the 8th of March and was established by Clara Zetkin who was a German Feminist in 1911.
Why does it happen? It is a chance to celebrate all of women’s history, to remember the struggles women have had to endure all over the world and their resistance.
Why is saying we don’t have an international men’s day not in the spirit of the occasion?
Because it takes the focus or limelight from women which is the whole purpose of an international women’s day. Of course it is important to raise awareness on the struggles men go through such as suicide rates being far higher than women but by doing this would give a platform to those to begrudge the progress women have made which is rightly celebrated with an International day.
After reading an article on Morgan Lake and it (IWD) being crucial in shattering sporting stigma’s by The National Newspaper and BT’s video on international women’s day I’m just going to list a few things I have learnt.
I feel like I have learnt now about how important it is also for women’s participation in sport to push more towards equality and the importance of international women’s day. There is a stigma that is slowly diminishing through more and more women participating in sport that Women should be slim and should not train for muscle hypertrophy. But this is something that has reduced but needs to continue to do so. I think then also the video from BT just highlights how it is just as important for women to have these role models growing up in sport as it is with men, these women being Fran Kirby or Gemma Knight are all paving the way for women athletes all around the world to be idolised by the next generation.
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