Womans day????

[Trigg]

This morning I took the stepdaughter to school. She informed me that this is "woman's day" in China. Sooo, what is 'woman's day'?? is a gift required?? Or is this a scam to make me get her a gift????

 

C'mon guys, I gotta know in order to stay/get out of the doggie house that I seem to find myself wrongfully placed in on so many occasions.

 

Trigg

[jgrier5]

It is Women's Day, 3/8/05. Traditionally, women are allowed to stay home and rest while the men go to work. And younger women are given gifts.

 

Sorry, but it is true.

[vibes1313]

I think (or hope) it may be more job related. My SO got to leave work at noon, and they gave all the women 400RMB to go shopping. Needless to say, the stores were packed.

[DocMartin817]

IU was online talking to Liwen when I read your question -- so here is what she had to say:

DocMartin817: what is womans day?

happywen99: woman's festveil in 8th, march

DocMartin817: do you buy a gift? or what? not work or go to school?

happywen99: bought nothings...there were so many many woman in big stores

happywen99: and many shopping discount for woman today

DocMartin817: what is this day

DocMartin817: how do you celebrate this?

happywen99: almost woman in here got free for a half day,,,

DocMartin817: oh do you buy a gift for them ?

happywen99: no,,my sister wanted to buy cloth and bag today,,,

DocMartin817: so do you have a special dinner?

happywen99: yes,,i had speical dinner with my sister

 

Hope this helps

[DocMartin817]

one more for the road

 

happywen99: but in woman's day man will do more things at home for his wife

[Trigg]

Got it. All I have to do is give her half a day off and I have to go to work. Problem is she doesn't hve a job and niether do I.

 

special dinner is no problem--wonder what she will make???

 

Thanks all,

Trigg

[Trigg]

The wife just chimed in and told me that I have to do all the house work and take her shopping today. I'm thinking this is her interpretation of the situation. If she thinks I can successfully do housework she is delusional. Shopping i can do, i simply take her to the mall-give her money and wait outside on the grumpy ole man benches they put there for those of us who are shopaphobic.

[MRMC]

I sent flowers. www.flowers-to-china.com

[jgrier5]

It is true!

Now dish out the cash man!

[Mengxin]

This morning I took the stepdaughter to school. She informed me that this is "woman's day" in China. Sooo, what is 'woman's day'?? is a gift required?? Or is this a scam to make me get her a gift???? 

 

C'mon guys, I gotta know in order to stay/get out of the doggie house that I seem to find myself wrongfully placed in on so many occasions.

 

Trigg

I think you got something there Trigg. I'm going with the consperacy theroy all the way. The women are plotting again.

 

Don't take the bait man! Just act like you didn't know.

[Trigg]

Don't take the bait man! Just act like you didn't know.

Yea, I'll just act stupid. That'll fool her.

[Rick-Guohua]

Come on,,, Admitt it,,, You'll be saying the standard reply

Yes Dear, What ever you want dear, I missed a spot

Ok, Show me and I'll clean again

What did you want for dinner? Lobster and Crab Legs and you want me to cook it?

Yes Dear,,, I'll do that right this minute

 

Rick,,, Just wishing I could have this moment of happiness today

[Trigg]

Come on,,, Admitt it,,, You'll be saying the standard reply

Yes Dear, What ever you want dear, I missed a spot

Ok, Show me and I'll clean again

What did you want for dinner? Lobster and Crab Legs and you want me to cook it?

Yes Dear,,, I'll do that right this minute

 

Rick,,, Just wishing I could have this moment of happiness today

Nu uhhh, I'm the boss 'round cheer. She doesn't scare me none. I'm the man. I'm in charge. I'm king of my castle, lord of all I survery. Numero uno. Lao bin. I wear tha pants by God!!

 

Huh??? Uh-er wait a minute i'll be right back. uh the house is on fire, yea thats the ticket the house is on fire--gotta go

 

Damnit, i'm comin' dear.

[Rick-Guohua]

That's what I thought Your the man, Sure you are, Just be telling yourself that,,, One day you might just get to believe it! If she tells you it's ok to....

 

Fire out yet ?

 

Rick

[maiyademama]

This is an international holiday........

 

Celebrated all over the world! Happy Day, Ladies!

 

International Women's Day

 

 

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

 

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.

 

The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:

 

1909

 

In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.

 

1910

 

The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.

 

1911

 

As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.

 

Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.

 

1913-1914

 

As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.

 

1917

 

With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.

 

Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.

 

 

The Role of the United Nations

Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.

 

Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.