How will you #PressforProgress in 2018?
The International Women's Day 2018 campaign theme is #PressforProgress.
Individually, we're one drop but together we're an ocean. Commit to a "gender parity mindset" via progressive action. Let's all collaborate to accelerate gender parity, so our collective action powers equality worldwide.
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This Grace Fu Marks International Women’s Day with Parliament Catfight and Personal Insults
If you can’t beat them, then throw a tantrum and piss them off?
That seems to be what happened in parliament today during the catfight between Leader of the House, this Grace Fu from the PAP, and the WP’s Sylvia Lim.
When questioned by Lim as to whether there were double standards in parliament – one for the Prime Minister and one for clarifications on GST – all Grace Fu could muster was a weak attack on the WP and Lim.
“I would like to say that her conduct falls well short of the standards of integrity and honorable conduct we expect of all members. Regrettably to say that it reflects the low standards which the Member and her party have set for themselves with regard to commitment to truthful and honest debate in parliament.”Sounds like that moment when you don’t have a good come back line and resort to name-calling?
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Why WOMEN are important???👩
1. You got the name (Adam)👨 from (Madam)👩
2. You got the word (Man)👨 from (Woman)👩
3. You also got the word (Male)👨 from (Female)👩
4. And you got (He)👨 from (She)👩
5. You definitely got (Mr)👨 from (Mrs)👩
6. And finally in prayers, we say (A-men) from (Wo-men)
Dedicated to All Wonderful Women
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
From Suffrage To Sisterhood: What Is Feminism And What Does It Mean?
Held on March 8, International Women’s Day celebrates the progress women have made over the last century, and the inspiring women who helped make that progress happen. From the suffragist movement of the 1800s to the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, women have used the power of language and oration to inspire countless people.
Early feminism was heavily influenced by the Enlightenment in Europe during the late 1700s. The movement focused on reason and equality for all, and it ultimately inspired the American and French Revolutions. Think of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Of course, that whole all men are created equal thing didn’t apply to women or people of color at the time. That was a problem and a great source of tension for early feminism.
In the UK, Mary Wollstonecraft, an early feminist, published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, promoting the then-radical idea that women be educated on the same level as their male peers. The word feminism itself was first coined in 1837 by French philosopher, Charles Fourier (as féminisme). It originally referred to “feminine qualities or character,” but that sense isn’t used any more. Toward the end of the century, the word came to refer to equal rights for women and became inextricably linked to the suffragist movement.
