{"id":7750,"date":"2021-03-08T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T14:35:37","slug":"international-womans-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/international-womans-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"International Woman&#8217;s Day 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is <em>Choose to Challenge<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Change can come from challenge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the International Woman\u2019s Day website, \u201c<em>A challenged is an alert world. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the 110<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;year of International Woman\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are asking people to take a selfie with a raised hand to &#8220;<em>show your commitment to choose to challenge inequality, call out bias, question stereotypes, and help forge an inclusive world,<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0and use the hashtags #choosetochallenge and #IWD2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I plan on doing so later today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to thank all the women who have gone before me allowing me to do all the things I can do now that I could not 110 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those women challenged what was consider the societal norm and broke the barriers they faced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I try to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think one of the things I did to change of thinking of what was normal was being the first woman to work in several comic book shops. It was hard to convince the owners that I wasn\u2019t a fake and knew my stuff. After I got the job, they found that I did know about comics and various fandoms and was an amazing organizer. I could get women who came in with their boyfriends and husbands to read comics as well. I was very good at finding a comic that suited the person. I made the shop feel more welcoming for everyone. Since then at least half of the employees at those shops are female.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am grateful for all the woman who have broken barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s theme is Choose to Challenge. Change can come from challenge.&nbsp; From the International Woman\u2019s Day website, \u201cA challenged is an alert world. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.\u201d This is the 110th&nbsp;year of International Woman\u2019s Day. They are asking people to take a selfie with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7751,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions\/7751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}