International Woman's Day

[boris1gary]

http://www.wftucentral.org/?p=7323&language=en

On the occasion of the International Working Women’s Day, the Secretariat of the WFTU salutes the working women and expresses its solidarity to their everyday struggles for the improvement of their living and working conditions.

The class-oriented trade union movement internationally, the affiliates and friends of the WFTU have been engaged in national efforts to strengthen the working women’s movement. More women’s committees have been established within the structures of the trade unions in the spirit of the resolutions of the 16th World Trade Union Congress.

According to the Action Plan approved at the 2014 Presidential Council Session in Rome, Italy on February 14-15th, the WFTU has set forth for the 1st World Congress for Working Women to take place by the end of 2014.

We should join these efforts in a World Congress, discuss the difficulties faced, debate on the developments in the workers movement, form a joint platform of demands and coordinate our struggle for the strengthening of the working women’s movement internationally, to lay the ground for further breakthroughs in their rights and conquests.

For the class-oriented trade union movement, for the WFTU, the struggle against the dual exploitation of the working women and the anti-labor reforms that add further burden to them and for the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of the working women have always been a priority.

[boris1gary]

Happy IWD to everyone.

[boris1gary]

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dancing-on-the-glass-ceiling-on-international-womens-day-20140307-3...

Dancing on the glass ceiling on International Women's Day

Today is International Women's Day. A year ago, on this day, we had a female prime minister and three women in cabinet. Now 18 men plus Julie Bishop make decisions on our behalf. So much for holding up half the sky.

In Victoria, a senior female government minister has just lost preselection to a less experienced man. Soon a military man will replace our female Governor-General. Women still earn 17 per cent less than their male peers and run 3 per cent of ASX 200 companies.

The Abbott government is appointing mostly male ideologues to key roles. Its paid maternity leave scheme, while welcome, favours higher earners. Women, in general, are less wealthy and have far less superannuation, but the government has meanly axed the $500 super rebate for low earners. It even tried to get low-paid (mostly female) childcare workers to hand back a pay rise.

[polksaladallie]

Here's one reason for IWD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KP9fYZUWA

[rabbitearbandicoot]

when is International Men's Day? 

[polksaladallie]

Every day since Adam was a boy.

[lakeland27]

[lloydslights]

Interesting to note that the Registrar was a woman.

DEB

[lakeland27]

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@lloydslights wrote:

Interesting to note that the Registrar was a woman.

DEB

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 yes. i found it inside a book about ten years ago.

[bluecat*dancing]

Happy International Women's Day!