{"id":390700,"date":"2010-03-04T19:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gordonmoyes.com\/2010\/03\/05\/international-womens-day-2\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T00:09:58","slug":"international-women%e2%80%99s-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390700","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8th of March across the world. IWD<\/span> is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women in the past, present and future. It is a day when women are recognised for their achievements, without regards for divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political.<\/p>\n

This year’s theme is Empowering Women to End Poverty by 2015, and aims to raise public awareness about the centrality of gender equality to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and to discuss practical ways that the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved over the next five years.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Government Leaders from around the world came together and agreed on a powerful agenda for a global partnership to fight poverty, the Millennium Development Goals. Central to the achievement of these goals is gender equality. Despite there being one specific goal of gender equality (Goal 3), without progress towards the empowerment of women, none of the other goals can be achieved.<\/p>\n

Women, and in particular women with disability, disproportionately experience poverty and widespread discrimination. These actions are examples of what we mean when we talk about empowering women to end poverty:<\/p>\n

– Action taken to promote greater involvement of women in public life.
\n – Legal and social programs that give women protection from violence.
\n – Promotion of social change which encourages more equitable sharing of domestic burdens.
\n – Girls and women enabled to gain greater access to technical training and information and communication technologies.
\n – Needs and rights of women given greater priorities when public services are being reformed.<\/p>\n

To find out more information, go to: http:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.org.au\/<\/a> Furthermore, the NSW <\/span>Premier’s Council for Women is currently undertaking a survey about the views and experiences of NSW<\/span> women and paid work. To participate in this online survey, visit the Office for Women’s Policy website at www.women.nsw.gov.au<\/a> and follow the links to “Conversation with NSW<\/span> women about paid work” online survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8th of March across the world. IWD is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women in the past, present and future. It is a day when women are recognised for their achievements, without regards for divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}