{"id":1290,"date":"2019-03-13T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2019-03-13T20:20:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:20:40","slug":"international-womens-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/2019\/03\/13\/international-womens-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President June Bould welcomed 50 members and guests to their event to mark International Women\u2019s Day 2019. \u00a0President June explained that after women gained the right to vote in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. In 1975 the UN began celebrating the day as a way of recognising women\u2019s achievements and since then celebrations of IWD on March 8<sup>th<\/sup> each year have spread globally, becoming a rallying call for support for women\u2019s participation in politics and economics.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme for International Women\u2019s Day is Balance for Better and we can all work to build a gender-balanced world. Gender balance is essential for economies and communities to thrive; it is needed in boardrooms, in government, in wealth, sports \u2013 everywhere.\u00a0 Everyone enjoyed striking the pose of #BalanceforBetter \u2013 an excellent way of reminding us of the need for balance.<\/p>\n<p>Soroptimist Dr Janis Lomas, historian and author spoke about some of the women who, a hundred years ago, did so much to change OUR lives and to begin to move our society towards being gender balanced. Her talk was entitled: \u201cRabble rousers and genteel ladies: the petticoat pioneers who won the vote&#8221;.\u00a0 She showed pictures and talked about the incredible things done by women such as Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters Christabel, Sylvia and Adela; Vera Holme; Kitty Marion \u2013 and so many more.\u00a0 Over 1,000 members of the Suffragette movement were arrested for their actions and put in prison when they refused to pay their fines.\u00a0 This could be for something we might now regard as fairly minor \u2013 but a woman continuously shouting out a slogan demanding Votes for Women in the 1900s was not something that went down well! Being arrested brought a lot of publicity and being sent to Holloway brought even more. The Suffragettes began to stage hunger strikes which initially had good results as they were released early \u2013 but then force feeding began.\u00a0 It involved strapping them down, forcing a tube through their nostril or down their throat into their stomachs \u2013 truly awful.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone listened enthralled \u2013 humbled by all that these women had done to defy age-old traditions; most women present wondered if they would have been brave enough to stand up to such punishment in order to get the right to vote.\u00a0 In her vote of thanks, Pam McGauley praised the wonderful Suffragettes but also club member and speaker Janis who demonstrated her knowledge of and passion for the subject matter \u2013 these genteel ladies who became rabble rousers to win the vote for women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/Pres-June-with-Jan-IWD-1-Large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1291\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/Pres-June-with-Jan-IWD-1-Large-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/Pres-June-with-Jan-IWD-1-Large-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/Pres-June-with-Jan-IWD-1-Large-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/Pres-June-with-Jan-IWD-1-Large-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/Pres-June-with-Jan-IWD-1-Large.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/soroptimist-v-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1292\" src=\"\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/soroptimist-v-2-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/soroptimist-v-2-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/cannock-and-district\/files\/2019\/03\/soroptimist-v-2.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Photos . l to r, June Bould, President SI Cannock &amp; District; Soroptimist Dr Janis Lomas, historian &amp; author striking the pose \u2013 Balance for Better<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"font-size: 0.9em\">Group of Soroptimists and guests \u2013 Balance for Better<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President June Bould welcomed 50 members and guests to their event to mark International Women\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Women&#039;s Day | News | Blog | Events | SI Cannock and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Cannock and District : Blog &amp; News : International Women&#039;s Day : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Cannock and District . 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