Please sign and spread the word – thanks x
In celebration of International Womens Day 100th Anniversary on 8th March 2011 please click on the link below and sign to call on the government to make this day an additional paid bank holiday.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Millionwomenrise/
International Women's Day is a national bank holiday in many other countries, both in Europe and globally. We call on our British government to make International Women's Day a bank holiday in England as a symbolic acknowledgement and reminder of their cross-departmental commitment to ending male violence against women and girls, and in recognition of the significant social, political and economic contribution that women in the UK continue to make at home and internationally
...one stick is easily broken, many sticks together are harder to break....
......One Woman, One body, One Song, One Love, One People
Excellent idea... But...
Oh no! Not the 8th of March
**leaves the thread whistling** (The Git's birthday!!)
...all the more reason, sparkling!! (where are the smilies when we need them?)
I hope you have both signed the petition and sent it to everyone you know, men and women alike.
If other countries both in Europe and globally can celebrate it, then so should we. Its not just a day off, it is to recognise the ongoing male violence against women and girls and get the government and society to keep thinking about how we can change this.
Just saying but I don't think havnig a day off is going to change anything, education will because this sort of thing is learnt behaviour from a very early age and most people know about it already anyway, at least the people who are at or living in the root of much of the problem anyway.
Women as having a somehow lesser place in society is ingraned in everything around us, even our language. It's us as parents that have to break the cycle in our own children, or try at least.
And! this always gets me upset, it's not just men!! I lived in a violent opressive house with my two, constantly in fear of what my wife was going to do because of some random thing like not putting the lid back on the coffee.
Sorry but I don't think that petitioning for a national day off is one going to happen or two going to change anything, the problem goes much deeper than that.
Just saying.
Good post, bubblegum
2/10 though for spelling.
Very poor Simon go to the back of the class.
:)
I hadn't noticed the spelling...
:-)
It might just raise more awareness and once a year, make people think about it and maybe over time/generations, less people will stand for it.
3 women are killed every week by violent men and we rarely hear the true story of it. It is reported that 12 men a year are killed by spouses or ex partners, we need to raise awareness so that survivors recognise the danger they are in and support them to seek help.
I think this is a fantastic idea, to have a petition!