By: Gabby Wahla, Assistant Director
Recently, we celebrated International Women’s Day 2022. International Women’s Day, March 8th annually, is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. IWD also marks a call to action across the globe to accelerate women’s equality. IWD 2022 marks the 111th celebration of International Women’s Day, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, International Women’s Day belongs to all people, groups, countries, organizations, and more across the globe who are inspired to celebrate it and fight for gender equity for all.
While we at MSU were on Spring Break during International Women’s Day 2022, we hope you had an opportunity to reflect and celebrate the achievements of women everywhere. The staff of Women*s Student Services has been hard at work collaborating with groups, departments and organizations across campus to bring you lots of events this month for Women’s History Month, and we hope you’ll join us for some of them!
If you are planning on posting something about International Women’s Day this year, please use the hashtag #BreakTheBias. For IWD 2022, a Twitter account was created called “Gender Pay Gap Bot” @PayGapApp. This account retweets the gender pay gap in organizations that tweet a message for International Women’s Day 2022. We encourage you to take a look at the Gender Pay Gap Bot’s page and the work they are doing to spread awareness at the reality of the pay gap (primarily in organizations in the UK, but still).
"Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias."
Celebrate women's achievements. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.
References:
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Interested in sharing your own "Thought Of The Day" or TOTD? Email us at wss@msu.edu.
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