{"id":1366,"date":"2021-03-05T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T09:00:28","slug":"international-womens-day-march-8-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/03\/05\/international-womens-day-march-8-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#8217;s Day &#8211; March 8, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Women&#8217;s Day is a day to celebrate women&#8217;s achievements and to raise awareness of gender inequality.<\/p>\n<p>This year International Women&#8217;s Day is being held on March 8th.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year is &#8216;Choose To Challenge&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we&#8217;re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions &#8211; all day, every day.<\/p>\n<p>We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women&#8217;s achievements.\u00a0Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.<\/p>\n<p>From challenge comes change, so let&#8217;s all\u00a0<strong>choose to challenge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; www.internationalwomensday.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many ways to get involved including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>holding an event (digital or hybrid)<\/li>\n<li>launching a project or initiative<\/li>\n<li>delivering female-focused activity<\/li>\n<li>conducting research &#8211; learn more about the movement and ways you can help<\/li>\n<li>running a social media campaign<\/li>\n<li>making\u00a0a video<\/li>\n<li>securing an International Women&#8217;s Day speaker to attend an event, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Examples of role models such as J.K.Rowling can be found using this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/02\/International-Womens-day-Female-Profile-Examples.pdf\">International Women&#8217;s day Female Profile Examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20210216-105557_Adobe-Acrobat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1370\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/02\/Screenshot_20210216-105557_Adobe-Acrobat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1439\" height=\"2022\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can download activity cards using this link:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/02\/International-Womens-Day-Activity-Cards.pdf\">International Women&#8217;s Day Activity Cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To download the fact sheet pictured above use this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/files\/2021\/02\/International-Womens-Day-Fact-Sheet.pdf\">International Women&#8217;s Day Fact Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For full details and some further background on the movement please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/About\">https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/About<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women&#8217;s Day is a day to celebrate women&#8217;s achievements and to raise awareness of gender inequality. This year International Women&#8217;s Day is being held on March 8th. The theme for this year is &#8216;Choose To Challenge&#8217;. A challenged world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/2021\/03\/05\/international-womens-day-march-8-2021\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[233258,233257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/healthandwellbeing-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}