{"id":7188,"date":"2026-03-03T10:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T10:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/?p=7188"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:33:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:33:32","slug":"march-2026-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/2026\/03\/03\/march-2026-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2026 &#8211; SI Woking, 50 years, International Women&#8217;s Day, women &#8211; violence, rights, support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7128\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2025\/12\/Rising-to-the-Challenge-no-frame.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Yellow tulips, massed together have a huge impact &#8211;<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>&#8211; so do women when they work together towards a goal<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) became a crime in 1985<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Statutory Maternity Pay was introduced in 1987<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>In the late 1980s, campaigns focused on women in public life and in sport<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Since 1976 SI Woking has supported a wide range of projects and charities, including:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>York Road Project &#8211; Teddies for Tragedies &#8211; British Red Cross <\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Crossroads &#8211; Action for Carers<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h1>International Women&#8217;s Day<\/h1>\n<p>This year, we walked with our Weybridge Soroptimist sisters in Painshill Park.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is &#8216;Rights, Justice, Action&#8217; for all women and girls.\u00a0 So we welcome the UK government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/creating-an-action-plan-guidance-for-employers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new guidance<\/a> on reducing the gender pay gap and helping employees experiencing menopause.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/IWD_4-240x300.png\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/woking-and-district\/files\/2026\/03\/IWD-26_3-300x300.png\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Women &#8211; violence, rights, support<\/h1>\n<p>&#8216;An epidemic&#8217; of violence: the women and girls killed by men last year.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg5nelp5enpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article published by BBC News 10 March 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Female genital mutilation: see the latest data per country <a href=\"https:\/\/data.unicef.org\/resources\/fgm-country-profiles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A look back in history at Kensington Palace, London: the new exhibition (26 March until 8 November 2026)\u00a0 tells the story of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrp.org.uk\/kensington-palace\/whats-on\/the-last-princesses-of-punjab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suffragette icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/major-funding-boost-to-divert-women-from-a-life-of-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK government has announced more money<\/a> will be given to help women stay out of trouvle with the law.\u00a0 Women&#8217;s support centres (including in Woking) will be able to do more, more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow tulips, massed together have a huge impact &#8211; 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