International Women's Day : 101 Years Today!

International Women's Day turns 101 years old!  

Happy Birthday to all the women who have created, researched, contributed, fought, loved, and shared their lives and talents to make all of our lives better!  Broads LOVE the men who support our works and talents! 

Broad Made Signature Quilt, 2012

Photo Credit : All images are copyrighted by the artists.  First Row : Benné Rockett, Jacqueline May, Chelsea Léger, Joan Paci   Second Row : Joe O'Connell, Tracey Alsop  Center : Timothy Ryan  Third Row : Tracey Alsop, Diane Waddell  Fourth Row :  Joan Paci, Jessi T. Walsh, Skip Hunt, Jessi T. Walsh

Rooted in the American Women's Suffrage Movement, International Women's Day is now celebrated worldwide.  Don't forget, March is Women's History Month so the fun doesn't stop today.

• The United Nations is hosting events throughout the month that focus on women and men uniting to end violence against women and girls.  
• Canada's theme is focused on the status of women in the Federal Government.  The Art Department faculty at UBC, Canada, exhibits works based on the theme of Decolonizing and Deconstructing International Women's Day, followed by panel discussions to address research on women’s rights, lives and experiences as a way to then talk about the problems and advantages International Women’s Day has in its current construction. 
• Australia's UNIFEM is focused on two areas - ending violence against women, and supporting women's economic stability.  
• UK calls for women to focus on achieving a 50:50 split in the boardrooms by 2020.
•  IBM, USA is sponsoring events that look at success in global integrated enterprises.  IBM is really pushing the agenda in India with a women's leadership conference.  
• PEN International events are focused on the disappeared and murdered women writers of Mexico.   
• Germany will honor the memory of the Eritrean women, who fought equally with their male counterparts to liberate their country from the colonial forces of the Ethiopian government.  
• In Russia, IWD is more like a combination of Mother's and Valentine's Day.  It seems they may have forgotten the good fight their grandmothers' fought for equal rights in the 1940s.  
• Women of the Netherlands will be inspired by a  musical marathon of compositions by women performed by women soloists in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.   
• French women can attend Soirée de la Femme by Ladies & The City.   
• Women of  Venesuela are invited to Caracas for a series of events being hosted by El Camino de las Mariposas. 

From all over the world, in every discipline, women have changed the way we experience the world.   

• Hôjô Masako (1156-1225), one of the most formidable political figures to take a place on the stage of Japan's warrior government.
• Anna Bijns, born in 1493 in Antwerp, Belgium, was the first Dutch independent writer, and considered to be the best selling Dutch author of the 16th century. 
• Caroline Herschel, born in Germany 1750, discovered eight comets.
• Deprived of basic education, Italian born, Marie Gaetana Agnesi, (1718), wrote works on differential and integral calculus.  She was one of the most gifted mathematicians of her time.
• Despite gender bias, US sculptor  Harriet Hosmer, born in 1830, became one of the most famous sculptors of the 19th century.  
• The Venerable Concepción Cabrera de Armida (born on December 8, 1862 in San Luis Potosí, Mexico and died on March 3, 1937 in Mexico City) was a Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and writer her religious writings and meditations total over 60,000 handwritten pages. The length of her religious writings thus approaches that of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
• Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), the first French female composer to win the Prix de Rome, with her cantata Faust and Helena
• Born in 1900, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, in 1953 became the first woman (and first Indian) president of the United Nations Genral Assembly,.
• Alla Nikolayevna Bayanova is a symbolic Russian singer, most famous for her mellow voice and simple yet dramatic style of performance. Bayanova was born in Bessarabia on 18 May 1914.

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