International Women's Day: Choose to Challenge
" I'm a Women phenomenally. Phenomenal Women, that’s me " - Maya Angelo 1) International Women's Day International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also makes a call to action for accelerating gender parity. Significant activities are witnessed worldwide as groups come together to celebrate women's achievements or rally for women's equality. The campaign theme for international women's day 2021 is 'choose to challenge' because it indicates that a "challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change". This year we can all choose to challenge everything that has been holding us back and become better allies. 2) History In 1911, International Women's Day was commemorated for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on 19 March. Between 1913 to 1914, women's in Russia observed their first Women'