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WHY SHOULD A YOUNG WOMAN ENTER THIS PAGEANT? It is obvious why many young girls have the desire to enter pageants. They have dreams, and part of those dreams is to win the prizes, to be named the most beautiful, to wear a sparkling crown - a lot of glamour and fantasy!

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Women's Day: Purple is the new black! Know the significance here

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Historically, purple was the colour that denoted justice and dignity. Today, it is used to represent women. Purple, green and white are the colors of International Women's Day. The significance of the colour originated from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in the UK in 1908 and signified being loyal to a cause.

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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Women across the world will demand equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice, decision-making jobs and other essential needs during demonstrations marking International Women's Day on Friday.

Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women's Day is commemorated in different ways and to varying degrees in places around the world. Protests are often political and, at times, violent, rooted in women's efforts to improve their rights as workers.

Demonstrations are planned from Tokyo to Mexico City, and this year's global theme is "Inspire Inclusion."

Here is what to know about the March 8 global event:

WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY?

International Women's Day is a global celebration - and call to action - marked by demonstrations, mostly of women, around the world, ranging from combative protests to charity runs. Some celebrate the economic, social and political achievements of women, while others urge governments to guarantee equal pay, access to healthcare, justice for victims of gender-based violence and education for girls.

It is an official holiday in more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Ukraine, Russia and Cuba, the only one in the Americas.

Like in other aspects of life, social media plays an important role during International Women's Day, particularly by amplifying attention to demonstrations held in countries with repressive governments toward women and dissent in general.

WHEN DID IT START AND WHY DOES IT FALL ON MARCH 8?

While the idea behind a women's day originated in U.S. with the American Socialist Party in 1909, it was a German feminist who pushed for a global commemoration during an international conference of socialist women held in 1910 in Copenhagen. The following year, events across Europe marked the day, and during World War I, women used it to protest the armed conflict, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.

International Women's Day is observed on March 8 after a massive protest in Russia on Feb. 23, 1917, that led to the country's eventual withdrawal from the war. At the time, Russia had not adopted the Gregorian calendar - named after Pope Gregory XIII, who introduced it in 1582 - and still used the Julian calendar - the brainchild of Julius Caesar and still used by Orthodox churches for religious rites.

"On Feb. 23 in Russia, which was March 8 in Western Europe, women went out on the streets and protested for bread and peace," said Kristen Ghodsee, professor and chair of Russian and East European studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Demonstrators included widows, wives and mothers of men who died or were injured during the war. "The authorities weren't able to stop them, and then, once the men saw that the women were out on the streets, all of the workers started coming and joining the women."

The U.N. began commemorating the holiday in 1975, which was International Women's Year, and its General Assembly officially recognized the day two years later.

ARE FLOWERS AND CHOCOLATES WELCOME?

It depends on the time and place.

Women in Eastern Europe have long received flowers on March 8 - and sometimes even gotten the day off from work. But chocolates and candy can come across as a belittling gestures, showing a lack of understanding of the struggles driving women to protest, particularly in regions where protests have been combative.

In Turkey, women last year braved an official ban on an International Women's Day march in Istanbul, and protested for about two hours before police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and detain dozens of people. And in Mexico City dozens of people were injured during a March 8 demonstration in 2021, after protesters battled police in the main square with rocks, bottles, metal poles, spray paint and streams of flame from lit aerosol cans.

Online retailers, meanwhile, have long used International Women's Day to sell sweatshirts, greeting cards, sticker packs, cloth totes, jeopardy games, cupcake toppers and myriad other March-8-themed, purple-heavy items for the event.

The internet also offers plenty of guides for businesses to tap into the occasion, from cupcakes and appreciation emails for employees to product bundles and social media offers for existing or future customers. Companies, however, have had varying degrees of success with these efforts.

McDonald's in 2018 flipped its golden arches to a "W" on its social media accounts and even the sign at a store in California, a marketing ploy that was criticized online as an empty gesture and led to calls on the company to improve the working conditions of workers instead.

WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR MARCH 8?

Ghodsee said commemorating International Women's Day is now more important than ever, as women have lost gains made in the last century, chiefly among them the 2022 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a nationwide right to abortion, which ended constitutional protections that had been in place nearly 50 years.

"I think women around the world before (Donald) Trump became president, - when Hillary Clinton was running for president, Sheryl Sandberg was writing "Lean In" and it was all girlboss feminism - we didn't know how quickly all of that could be taken away," she said.

The U.S. decision on abortion has reverberated across Europe's political landscape, forcing the issue back into public debate in some countries at a time when far-right nationalist parties are gaining influence.

France on Monday became the only country to explicitly guarantee abortion as a constitutional right, a historic move proposed by President Emmanuel Macron and hailed by women's rights activists worldwide.

The vote during a special joint session of France's parliament drew a long standing ovation among lawmakers.

"We have a moral debt to women," French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal told lawmakers in the lead-up to the vote Monday.

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International Women's Day is a celebration and call to action. Beware the flowers and candy

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International Women's Day was officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, ad is commemorated in different ways around the world. These are a few.

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For the past few years, I've been wondering what had been going wrong with International's Women's Day. The themes seemed to be bland, vague, unmeasurable, and borderline meaningless.

I was also feeling more and more uncomfortable with my social media feed being flooded each year with photos of women in cutesie poses, like hands crossed over their chest, stop palms, or this year's 'heart hands', which makes me think of giggling teenage girls (no offence, I was one once).

It's embarrassing and even demeaning, reinforcing the stereotype about women being about emotions and love, whereas men are about decisiveness and action.

Is a hands-heart selfie really going to get women promoted? Or create a genuine level playing field?

Can you imagine a male CEO doing that kind of pose in public and still being taken seriously?

So why was International Women's Day asking women to do it?

I even remember discussing with colleagues whether these themes were dreamed up in the pub by a company that wanted to avoid businesses actually having to take action.

So I did some digging, and what I found shocked me.

Did you know that #InspireInclusion is NOT the theme for the 2024 #InternationalWomensDay?

It's not your fault if you've fallen for it, though.

Even the Independent Newspaper fell for it this week, parroting from the official-looking website's footer claim that the day isn't 'owned' by anyone and that the 2024 theme is #InspireInclusion . The article even states that the IWD website is the official website for the day - a very common belief.

All three points are factually incorrect.

International Women's Day is exactly what it says on the tin: a day that is marked internationally, for women. And these official days are set up and led by the United Nations, not marketing agencies...

... because that's who owns the official-looking International Women's Day website - a self-appointed marketing agency.

The United Nations sets the theme for each year's #IWD, but the marketing agency puts more effort and expertise into marketing, drowning out the UN's theme and vital work.

So if you've found yourself cringing at recent years' themes, like #EmbraceEquity or this year's #InspireInclusion, it's the marketing agency you have to thank, because they're really good at, err, marketing.

This year's International Women's Day theme from the United Nations is, in fact:

Now that's actionable. And measurable. But definitely more scary for some organisations than the woolly off-the-hookness of 'inspire inclusion'.

But the marketing agency's IWD theme is - unsurprisingly - well marketed. So lots of companies are putting genuinely well-intentioned efforts into supporting it.

If your organisation has accidentally picked up the marketing agency's #InpsireInclusion theme this year, there's still time to change it to the United Nation's #InvestInWomen.

#InvestInWomen is what's needed to close the gender pay gap and achieve genuine equality in all levels of organisations, especially in leadership roles.

There's no shame in having been hood-winked by the marketing company's theme.

But please, please, please put this right before you do any more publicity for your #IWD2024 events.

Here's the thing I find really sad:

The United Nation's theme is chosen based on what they see as being most needed around the world, something that could make a real difference.

But the marketing agency seems to be working really hard to drown that out, using random themes that don't even make sense. And the split themes are dividing energy, potentially slowing progress.

You have to dig deep in the Ts & Cs to find out who is running the official-looking IWD website, which makes it strange that companies are so keen to give them money and credibility, with such lack of transparency.

It's not on their 'about' or 'contact us' pages, nor is it in the footer, which lacks the standard 'copyright' symbol with the website owner's name. The footer even makes the statement that International Women's Day is not owned by anyone (untrue) and makes zero mention of the United Nations.

It's as though they don't want people to realise they're not authorised by the UN as an IWD partner and, in fact, have zero official permission to be charging for sponsorship or merchandise for IWD, let alone setting the theme.

The marketing agency's website positions itself as so official for IWD that:

You have to apply in writing for permission to use 'the' IWD logos and branding for your articles, publicity and events

They have trademarked 'the' International Women's Day logos

You can pay them money for things that they claim are official IWD merchandise, when they're not, but there's no mention of where these funds go, and it's certainly not to support the UN's day

You can pay them money to be an official corporate sponsor of International Women's Day, even though this organisation has nothing to do with it, so has no right to be taking that money for that purpose

You can apply for an official International Women's Day partnership with them

And the only mention I could find of the United Nations on their entire IWD website is in the 'timeline' for International Women's Day, a deeply hidden article, which mentions the UN making the day official in 1975.

The company behind this website claims to have a core focus of working on women's equality. And I hope they are.

But why, then, would they then work so hard to drown out and over-shadow the incredible and essential work being done, worldwide, by the United Nations, instead of using their obvious marketing prowess to fully back and publicise the UN's theme?

They could easily work with the United Nations on this. They could easily support the UN's theme. They could really make a very big difference with this. But instead they are misleading organisations, charities, and individuals into believing that they are in some way 'official'.

Why would they seek to position themselves as the 'official' IWD organisation, instead of putting their considerable marketing prowess behind supporting the UN's global initiative?

Why would they consistently choose themes that are, at best, nebulous and unactionable, which could even be slowing the progress that is so desperately needed?

If your organisation is running events for International Women's Day this year and they are accidentally using the #InspireInclusion theme, please send them this article and ask them to switch to the United Nation's #InvestInWomen theme.

I know it's more in-your-face than the near-meaningless vagueness of inspiring inclusion, but it's what's needed.

It might take courage for them to make that shift in theme, but there's no shame in having fallen for excellent marketing. And it's not too late to put it right.

What I'd love to see next year is the marketing agency using its considerable talent to:

back the United Nations' International Women's day theme

be transparent about who they are and their motives

use the revenue they're generating to fund the UN's vital work (they claim the website is operated on a not-for-profit basis, but don't disclose where the money goes)

use their obvious marketing expertise to work with the United Nations on women's equality, instead of against them.

This year for #IWD I'm going to focus on #InvestInWomen. Are you joining us?

Annual #IWD Free Masterclass

I get asked by so many companies each year to run a keynote for their team members for International Women's Day and I have to turn most of them down. But I'm thrilled to be able to keep up what has become a tradition: running a free event that is open to everyone for #IWD.

This year I'm running a workshop on preventing #ImposterSyndrome and #burnout.

Our research shows that 1 in 10 UK employees considers quitting their job due to Imposter Syndrome or burnout, every single day, and for women this figure is 1 in 5.

The masterclass is open to men and to women, and it's tailored to the UN's theme of #InvestInWomen.

I'm going to be sharing the latest from our research studies into this, how to spot the hidden warning signs, and what we can do, both as individuals and organisations, to prevent Imposter Syndrome from getting in the way of women's equality. Our research studies show it's one of three hidden drivers of the gender pay gap.

It's on 12th March (after the main week's rush has died down).

You can grab your free ticket here . And please share the registration link with any friends or colleagues who you think might love this.

Clare Josa is considered a global authority on Imposter Syndrome and burnout, and has specialised in the field since 2003. She is the author of ten books, including Ditching Imposter Syndrome and , and is a sought-after international keynote speaker on how to change the world by changing yourself. Coaching Imposter Syndrome

Clare is the creator of the world's first ever app, specifically designed to help with Imposter Syndrome, Imposter Syndrome Hacks™ , and runs coaching certification programmes up to , creating scalable solutions for organisations to prevent Imposter Syndrome and burnout. Imposter Syndrome Master Coach

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Why I'm Not Going To #InspireInclusion For This Year's International Women's Day

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For the past few years, I've been wondering what had been going wrong with International's Women's Day. The themes seemed to be bland, vague, unmeasurable, and borderline meaningless.