{"id":2756,"date":"2016-03-08T13:28:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2016-03-08T13:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T12:32:34","slug":"iwd2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2016\/iwd2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats Off to Club Celebrating International Women&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark International Women&#8217;s Day Members were asked to bring and wear head gear making a statement about womanhood so we could learn and share something about women from all over the world. Please view the images on the Flipagram here:<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/flipagram.com\/f\/lcED8Cg6Hc%20\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/flipagram.com\/f\/lcED8Cg6Hc\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>As the old saying goes if you want to get ahead you&#8217;ve got to get a hat!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/07-IWD-Club-Crop-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2743\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/07-IWD-Club-Crop-Web.jpg\" alt=\"07-IWD Club Crop Web\" width=\"620\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/07-IWD-Club-Crop-Web.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/07-IWD-Club-Crop-Web-300x117.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #444444;font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif\">We celebrated with a candle lighting ceremony and shared food from around the world. T<\/span>he traditional Japanese doll pictured was a 50th Anniversary gift from our Friendship Link in Osaka in\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2744\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/05-Pamela-Burka-IWD-web-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"05-Pamela Burka IWD web\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/05-Pamela-Burka-IWD-web-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/05-Pamela-Burka-IWD-web.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>2007. The Burka was lent to us by Jackie Paling former Soroptimist Interntational Great Britain and Ireland Assistant Programme Director for Violence Against Women who visited Afghanist<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2745 size-medium\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/04-Sakura-Japanese-doll-web-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"04-Sakura Japanese doll web\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/04-Sakura-Japanese-doll-web-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/04-Sakura-Japanese-doll-web.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>an many times.<\/p>\n<div>As you can see the evening was fun and inspirational!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Across the world thousands of\u00a0Soroptimists mark International Women\u2019s Day with hundreds of activities and events on and around 8 March. In some countries just gathering like this puts their lives\u00a0at risk. Events highlight the economic, political and social achievements of women, and raise awareness of work still to be done to build a better world for women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>The first International Women\u2019s Day events were run in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland in 1911 and were attended by over one million people. More than 100 years on, International Women\u2019s Day (IWD) has become a global mainstream phenomena celebrated across many countries and is an official holiday in approximately 25 countries including Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam and Zambia. Thousands of events occur not just on this day but throughout March. Organisations, governments, charities and women\u2019s groups around the world choose different themes each year that reflect global and local gender issues, for more information see the website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">www.internationalwomensday.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/2016\/womens-day-2016\/\">www.sigbi.org\/2016\/womens-day-2016\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark International Women&#8217;s Day Members were asked to bring and wear head gear making&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[14,15,19,46,207,12,60,11,13,111,99],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-club","tag-group","tag-international","tag-international-womens-day","tag-iwd2016","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-women","tag-womens-group","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hats Off to Club Celebrating International Women&#039;s Day | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Hats Off to Club Celebrating International Women&#039;s Day : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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