international women's day

@rookie54 said
this is a great day to be alive

But what's the definition of an international woman??

@rookie54 said
this is a great day to be alive

Well, thank God I didn't bring it up, like past years.

Thank you, rookie.

@very-rusty said
I believe we should have international men's day as well, after all everyone should be equal correct?

-VR

Men and women are rarely equal, that's why we appreciate an International Women's Day.

@rookie54 said
be the change you wish to see

Not a change also to have recognition! 😉

-VR

@torunn said
Men and women are rarely equal, that's why we appreciate an International Women's Day.

A lot more equal than back when you were a little girl torunn!

There has been progress! Some may say not enough, I say any progress is good.

-VR

@very-rusty said
A lot more equal than back when you were a little girl torunn!

There has been progress! Some may say not enough, I say any progress is good.

-VR

Generally that is true, good progress. Men who are afraid of such progress, however, react in strange ways.

@torunn said
Generally that is true, good progress. Men who are afraid of such progress, however, react in strange ways.

Are you old enough to remember when women didn't have a vote, or perhaps heard your mom or grandmother talk about it.

One time they couldn't even work, as it was thought it would take away jobs from men, which actually did come to be!

-VR

@very-rusty said
Are you old enough to remember when women didn't have a vote, or perhaps heard your mom or grandmother talk about it.

One time they couldn't even work, as it was thought it would take away jobs from men, which actually did come to be!

-VR

Women’s Right to Vote in Sweden Jan 26, 1921.

@torunn said
Women’s Right to Vote in Sweden Jan 26, 1921.

On May 24, 1918, following passage of An Act to confer the Electoral Franchise upon Women S.C. 1918, c. 20, women in Canada were granted the federal franchise.

Women's suffrage in Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Presentation of petition by Political Equality League for enfranchisement of women, Winnipeg, 23 December 1915

Political cartoon commenting on women's voting rights in Quebec
Women's suffrage in Canada occurred at different times in different jurisdictions and at different times to different demographics of women. Women's right to vote began in the three prairie provinces. In 1916, suffrage was given to women in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. The federal government granted limited war-time suffrage to some women in 1917, and followed with full suffrage in 1918. By the close of 1922, all the Canadian provinces, except Quebec, had granted full suffrage to White and Black women. Newfoundland, at that time a separate country, granted women suffrage in 1925. Women in Quebec did not receive full suffrage until 1940.[1]

Municipal suffrage was granted in 1884 to property-owning widows and spinsters in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario; in 1886, in the province of New Brunswick, to all property-owning women except those whose husbands were voters; in Nova Scotia, in 1886; and in Prince Edward Island, in 1888, to property-owning widows and spinsters. [2]

Asian women (and men) were not granted suffrage until after World War II in 1948, Inuit women (and men) were not granted suffrage until 1950 and it was not until 1960 that suffrage (in Federal elections) was extended to First Nations women (and men) without requiring them to give up their treaty status.

-VR

@very-rusty said
I believe we should have international men's day as well, after all everyone should be equal correct?

-VR

Everyday is international mens day.

@trev33 said
Everyday is international mens day.

I don't see any day marked on it trev33. 😉

-VR