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"Women's day event denied permission in Sudan". Al Jazeera. 2014-03-09. Retrieved March 10, 2014. -Lihaas (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Apocryphal?

Are we sure that the 1857 story was fabricated? I mean, those two, which claim that it happened are less reliable sources?

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/womensday/pages/how_content_1.asp

http://www.uic.edu/orgs/cwluherstory/CWLUArchive/interwomen.html

--85.74.125.119 (talk) 18:46, 4 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The UN source is actually a teaching project sponsored by the UN. The UN's official page doesn't mention 1857 anywhere.
Scholar books are usually more reliable than teaching books. Idem for articles in scholar journals (in this case, history and sociology journals). In this case, we have two scholar sources that are independent from each other.
IF you look at the "History" section, 8th March was chosen because it fell on Sunday in the year 1911.
Apocryphal histories can survive long after they have been debunked. They are repeated on lot of sources, and many sources copy directly from other sources without checking the information. --Enric Naval (talk) 14:45, 6 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Removed Unsourced Content

I removed the following unsourced content, because it clearly contradicts other sourced content immediately below.

"With February Revolution in Petrograd (a previous name for St. Petersburg, Russia). In the winter of 1917, conditions in the capital, Petrograd, were grim. The layout of the city seemed to emphasise the divisions among its people. The workers' quarters and factories were located on the right bank of the River Neva. On the left bank were the fashionable areas,the Winter Palace, and official buildings, including the palace where the Duma met. In February 1917, food shortages were deeply felt in the worker's quarters. The winter was very cold ñ there had been exceptional frost and heavy snow. Parliamentarians wishing to preserve elected government, were opposed to the Tsarís desire to dissolve the Duma. On 22 February, a lockout took place at a factory on the right bank. The next day, workers in fifty factories called a strike in sympathy. In many factories, women led the way to strikes. This came to be called the International Women's Day.[needs copy edit][citation needed]"

I also removed the following content, because it did not appear to add any information to the article, and appear to be promoting the citation content's author.

"In the 1980s historian Renée Coté uncovered the origins of the March 8th date for International Women's Day.[1] Her research was published in 1984 in Canada, as, La Journée internationale des femmes ou les vrais dates des mystérieuses origines du 8 de mars jusqu'ici embrouillés, truquées, oubliées : la clef des énigmes. La vérité historique. Montreal: Les éditions du remue ménage.[1]"

Zhujiangshuiguai (talk) 09:09, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference mmf1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

March 8 origin?

It seems that a number of sources are in disagreement about the origins of the March 8 date as International Women's Day. Perhaps the article would benefit from an "origins" subsection.Zhujiangshuiguai (talk) 14:14, 31 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary semi-protection necessary?

The topic is featured in today's Google Doodle and Wikipedia's On This Day. Article is at risk of vandalism, mainly by IP users unless the article is locked against IP edits to prevent vandalism Ryan (talk) 07:21, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note Protection request was denied. As of right now, does not appear to be enough disruptive activity to justify protection. Safiel (talk) 18:38, 8 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
2016 Follow-up So it's International Women's Day 2016 and was there any requests for semi-protection/pending-changes protection regarding the article since it is featured in 2016 Google Doodle? Ryan (talk) 19:43, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Taiwan

At the end of the "In modern culture" section, the article says "In Taiwan, International Women's Day is marked by the annual release of a government survey on women's waist sizes, accompanied by warnings that weight gain can pose a hazard to women's health," and links the citation http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/03/09/2003556662 . However, the page at that address goes to no length to support the statement that "IWD is marked by the annual release" of anything. Rather, it describes a particular survey of which the results were "highlighted yesterday on International Women’s Day [in 2013]." 98.71.193.74 (talk) 01:34, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Shockingly this was still in the article. I've removed it.--Jack Upland (talk) 03:39, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

International Women's Day vs International Day of Women

Women are both citizens of the world and citizens of the village. Some women are International Women, while most are just Women. Marie Curie, Hillary Clinton or Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the President of Liberia - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf or Ms Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria are International Women. If this Day celebrates Women in the elite society that is the UN, then it is aptly named. Otherwise, if it refers to the Chibok girls kidnapped by the Boko-Haram, or the weeping and grieving women of the Gaza, the rest of global mothers and girls, then it just is Women's Day or the International Day of Women.

This might not cause whoever matters to change it, but words have meaning, and "International Women's Day" sounds like one for the elite. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.202.76.4 (talk) 08:10, 12 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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woration?

This word appears right at the beginning of the Page. I have looked it up and barely understand it. It is an obscure modern word that doesn't seem to fit the sentence. Can we change it?

IceDragon64 (talk) 11:59, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The next women's day 8/3/2017

The next women's day 8/3/2017

Commander varun (talk) 12:46, 8 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Commander varun. IWD is held March 8 every year. It never changes. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 07:27, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The theme is "Be Bold for Change" (https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme). But when I went to edit the article, I saw a different theme -- but I didn't see it in the non-edit view. 37.99.35.34 (talk) 02:55, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There seem to be different versions, but clearly the UN version is what we have in the article: "Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030". See: [1][2].--Jack Upland (talk) 03:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Right flower?

Please change mimosa in picture explanation, Russian post card, to lily of the valley. I'm pretty sure that's not mimosa.

16:18, 8 March 2016 (UTC)Publicgoods (talk)

Hi Publicgoods. C4bl3fl4m3 updated the caption for you. Cheers! {{u|Checkingfax}} {Talk} 07:32, 9 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Day Without a Woman draft

Page watchers may be interested in helping to expand Draft:Day Without a Woman. ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:32, 2 March 2017 (UTC) Day Without a Woman. ---Another Believer (Talk) 17:01, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

History

[In the West, International Women's Day was first observed as a popular event after 1977 when the United Nations General Assembly invited member states to proclaim March 8 as the UN Day for women's rights and world peace.] But women of Eastern European origins in North America were celebrating International Women's Day decades earlier than that.[1] During World War II, some Western countries marked the date with an emphasis on women's contributions to the war effort and to the defeat of Fascism.[2] Eleanor Roosevelt praised such celebrations of women's worldwide unity in her "My Day" column in 1944.[3]

I've taken this from the article (with the exception of the first sentence which I include here for clarification). Clearly IWD was celebrated in the West before 1977, but three snippets from newspapers don't prove it was widely celebrated. In addition, the Ukrainian celebration in Canada was pro-Soviet, and the celebration in Australia was Communist-linked, Katharine Susannah Prichard being a prominent Australian Communist. There is no doubt that Communists and socialists around the world celebrated IWD, but that is already stated. The third snippet only mentions IWD in passing; it refers to British feminist Lady Rachel Workman MacRobert, but gives no indication of how widely IWD was celebrated.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:18, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Ukrainian Women's Organization Marks Women's 'May Day'" Winnipeg Tribune (March 10, 1937): 10. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  2. ^ "International Day Celebrated" Sydney Morning Herald (March 8, 1943): 3. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon
  3. ^ Eleanor Roosevelt, "My Day" Ottawa Journal (January 13, 1944): 19. via Newspapers.comOpen access icon

Lead

I've deleted a whole chunk of information from the lead that wasn't mentioned in the article (and had no citations). Moreover, purple ribbon does not link to anything to do with IWD, and the 1975 Icelandic women's strike did not happen on 8 March.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:48, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to have been an attempt to dilute the political significance of the day with vague and unsourced assertions. On the other hand, there has just now been a push to assert that the day started with the Russian Revolution, which is clearly untrue.--Jack Upland (talk) 20:27, 7 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jinty Nelson

I have removed Jinty Nelson [3] as a source. For one thing, she cites this page as one of her main sources. Her other main source is Kaplan, who we use extensively. I have replaced the citation of her with one of Kaplan, because she has got her information from Kaplan. She says Spanish Communists celebrated IWD "from" 1936. Kaplan refers to a march in 1936. The Spanish Civil War began later that year, and then Franco took power, so it's unlikely that the Communists were celebrating anything. It's also a very opinionated piece, which claims the Communists "hijacked" IWD. In fact, Communists like Clara Zetkin were responsible for popularising it. Yes, Nelson is a historian, but she's a medieval historian and hasn't put much work into this. I don't think we should use it in any form.--Jack Upland (talk) 01:29, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Purim

@Jack Upland: regarding the reversion [4]: is it really needed to add any "conspiracy theory"-grade sources, explicitly claiming that IWD comes from Purim? :) --Djadjko (talk) 02:12, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you put the information under "Apocrypha" together with the 1857 story, which implies that IWD does come from Purim. If you're just saying the dates are close, that's true, but it's not worth saying. Those articles are just musings about the two events, enough to hang a blog on, but not something that belongs in an encyclopedia.--Jack Upland (talk) 02:35, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
AFAIK, "apocrypha" is for rumours, fakes and other unproved, non-canonical works and theories. Theories (often rather antisemitic ones) deriving IWD from Purim are apparently quite popular in Russia. Instead, I've made a reference to some articles and blogs by Jewish women noticing the close dates. And yes, I'm not really sure how that should be put into the article. --Djadjko (talk) 04:05, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

1977 or 1975

The UN says they adopted IWD in 1975, not 1977, so I have amended the text. Unfortunately, the Independent has put out an article partly lifted from Wikipedia, which refers to 1977:[5]...--Jack Upland (talk) 03:59, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

2017 UN Theme

I've copied this from above because it is lost in old comments:

The theme is "Be Bold for Change" (https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme). But when I went to edit the article, I saw a different theme -- but I didn't see it in the non-edit view. 37.99.35.34 (talk) 02:55, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There seem to be different versions, but clearly the UN version is what we have in the article: "Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030". See: [6][7].--Jack Upland (talk) 03:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The theme has just been changed to "Be bold..." I think we need to sort this out.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:07, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Jacobin magazine

Jacobin has a special issue on the socialist origins of International Women's Day.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/category/blogs

--Nbauman (talk) 18:55, 8 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Official website"?

There is a link in the "External links" section containing the text "Official website" and linking to a privately registered .com website. I can't find anything to indicate that the website has any connection to the Socialist Party of America, which according to the article originated the day, nor to the United Nations or any other international body, so I can't work out in what sense it might be called "official". The article says that the day was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations, and yet the UN does not seem to link to this website. I can see nothing to indicate that this website is anything other than a commercial enterprise set up by whoever happened to be first to register the domain name. I would therefore suggest that unless somebody can clarify exactly what this website is and what claim it has to be "official", the link should be removed. -- Oliver P. (talk) 04:20, 9 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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