{"id":184,"date":"2014-03-11T16:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soroptimist-gbi.org\/london-anglia\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2022-03-06T16:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T16:12:32","slug":"breaking-news-profile-raising-event","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-anglia\/breaking-news-profile-raising-event\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We celebrate International Women’s Day every year on 8th March.\u00a0 Usually this tends to be a Club activity where we each run an event in our main town\/city, often in conjunction with other organisations that support women.\u00a0 At last we can meet in person again and the 10 Clubs in our Region are participating in local events or holding their own.\u00a0 This year’s theme is ‘Break the Bias’ <\/em>and let’s face it, it will not be before time.\u00a0 It took the Suffragettes some 60 years to achieve their goal of all women achieving the vote, and another 104 years has gone past and whilst we’ve made some strides there is still a long way to go before we have no gender bias and along with that no judgement of people based on their colour, creed, looks, disabilities, and more.<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Educate the World’s Girls<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Web-Bridge-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We celebrate International Women’s Day every year on 8th March.\u00a0 We have also had Regional Events like the one above in Cambridge where all 10 London Anglia Clubs come together. And we have visited the Women of the World ‘WOW’<\/em> events there for a number of years.\u00a0 Members\u00a0 write to their MP’s urging the Government to encourage countries across the world to provide proper schooling for the 40 million girls who presently get no education.\u00a0 They are more vulnerable to poverty, ill health, violence and trafficking.<\/p>\n

But in 2021 we were rather limited in what we could do and Clubs used their websites and social media more to get their message for International Women’s Day across.\u00a0 The theme for 2021 was:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#Choose to Challenge<\/span><\/h2>\n