International Women’s Day
WARRINGTON’s third female Mayor in a row is calling on local people to join together with people around the world and reflect on the successes and achievements of women on International Women’s Day on Monday, March 8.
The theme for this year’s celebrations is Choose to Challenge. A challenged world is an alert world.
Warrington Borough Council’s Mayor and Deputy Mayor are both women. The Mayor of Warrington, Cllr Maureen Creagham is the third female Mayor in a row and she is encouraging all women to choose to challenge and follow their ambitions whatever they are.
She said: “International Women’s Day is a time for everyone, regardless of gender or gender identity, to celebrate the progress that women have made towards equality and remember how much further there is to go.
“We celebrate all women, in all their diversities. We embrace their facets and intersections of faith, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity or disability. We celebrate those who came before us, those who stand beside us now, and those who will come after.
“It’s a time to celebrate the achievements of women, whether social, political, economic or cultural.”
*87,000 women are killed every year just because they are women. Of those, 50,000 are killed by their male partners or family members – and those are only the deaths we know about
111 countries have no repercussions for husbands who rape their wife
2.7 billion women are legally restricted from having the same choice of jobs as men
14% is the size of Australia’s gender pay gap
45 countries do not have specific laws against domestic violence
35% of women globally have experienced sexual or physical violence
