International Women’s Day 2021

The Wellness Universe recognizes and celebrates International Women’s Day alongside the United Nations. Sharing with you the theme and events for this year, we are sharing what was posted on the UN’s websites.

Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women\’s Day first emerged from the activities of labor movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe.

International Women\’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic, or political.

Since those early years, International Women\’s Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women\’s movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women\’s conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point to build support for women\’s rights and participation in the political and economic arenas.

International Women’s Day 2021

Women of the world want and deserve an equal future free from stigma, stereotypes and violence; a future that’s sustainable, peaceful, with equal rights and opportunities for all. To get us there, the world needs women at every table where decisions are being made.

This year, the theme for International Women’s Day (8 March), “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world,” celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights the gaps that remain.

Women’s full and effective participation and leadership in all areas of life drives progress for everyone. Yet, women are still underrepresented in public life and decision-making, as revealed in the UN Secretary-General’s recent report. Women are Heads of State or Government in 22 countries, and only 24.9 percent of national parliamentarians are women. At the current rate of progress, gender equality among Heads of Government will take another 130 years.

Women are also at the forefront of the battle against COVID-19, as front-line and health sector workers, as scientists, doctors, and caregivers, yet they get paid 11 percent less globally than their male counterparts. An analysis of COVID-19 task teams from 87 countries found only 3.5 percent of them had gender parity.

When women lead, we see positive results. Some of the most efficient and exemplary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were led by women. And women, especially young women, are at the forefront of diverse and inclusive movements online and on the streets for social justice, climate change and equality in all parts of the world. Yet, women under 30 are less than 1 per cent of parliamentarians worldwide. 

This is why, this year’s International Women’s Day is a rallying cry for Generation Equality, to act for an equal future for all. The Generation Equality Forum, the most important convening for gender equality investment and actions, kicks off in Mexico City from 29 – 31 March and culminates in Paris in June 2021. It will draw leaders, visionaries, and activists from around the world, safely on a virtual platform, to push for transformative and lasting change for generations to come.

Learn more about the Generation Equality Forum, meet the activists, and get inspired by stories of women leaders we admire.

Event: United Nations Observance of International Women\’s Day 2021

UN Women is pleased to invite you to the United Nations observance of International Women’s Day 2021. The theme is “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world on the way to the Generation Equality Forum”. Learn more ►

Statements

• Statement by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director, on International Women’s Day 2021
  In her statement for International Women\’s Day (8 March), UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said: “We need women’s representation that reflects all women and girls in all their diversity and abilities, and across all cultural, social, economic and political situations. This is the only way we will get real societal change that incorporates women in decision-making as equals and benefits us all.”

Source – https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/international-womens-day

Source – https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day/background

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