Happy International Women’s Day, girls!
And everyone who’s not boys.
The 8th of March is very important day for all women — the equal rights day.
Some history
The origins of that day are believed to go to 8th of March 1857, when female workers of textile industry went on strike in New York, demanding for better work conditions and higher salaries. In spring of 1908 women of New York City went on another street meeting, demanding women’s suffrage (the right of women to vote on the same terms as men).
In 1910 German communist Clara Zetkin offered to establish a special day in honor of fighting for equal rights for women. Since then women in different countries conducted meetings and went on strikes on a first week of spring to fight for their rights — to be treated equally, to vote and to receive equal payment and work benefits. International Women’s Day was officially acknowledged by the United Nations in 1975.
Meanwile in Russia now
International Women’s Day in Russia has transformed in a day, when every girl or woman is congratulated and praised on being a female. I personally find that weird. It became Mother’s and Girl’s day when in the morning men go to the shops to buy flowers and sweets. They also help to do the housework and cook something delicious for dinner. Women should thank their families because they can take a break and relax and forget about their everyday routine, about cooking and looking after their families.
Something went sideways
Why on every other day it isn’t happening? Why all other 364 days Russian men typically abstain from household chores? It’s a mystery.
One more time: woman is not “the beauty of the office”, but responsible employee and I want to prove it you.
Florence Nightingale — the symbol of charity
Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 — August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady with the Lamp, is the founder of modern nursing.
In her day, battlefield nurses were regarded as hangers-on without any special skills. She helped create a profession that is both medically rigorous and imbued with a sense of vocation to he help the sick and injured.
Nightingale’s most famous contribution to healthcare came during the Crimean War. She came to understand that most of the soldiers at the hospital were killed by poor sanitary living conditions. This experience influenced her later career, when she advocated sanitary living conditions as a priority for hospitals. Through her advocacy and attention to the sanitary design of hospitals, she reduced deaths in the Army during peacetime.
Many women and men who have chosen a career in nursing have followed Nightingale’s footsteps, in their idealism, selfless service, and professional standards.
Nightingale held strong opinions on women’s rights. In her book Suggestions for Thought to Searchers after Religious Truths (1859) she argued strongly for the removal of restrictions that prevented women having careers. Read by John Stuart Mill, it influenced his book on women’s rights, The Subjection of Women (1869).
I was surprised that In 1858 Nightingale was elected the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society and she later became an honorary member of the American Statistical Association. The point is that she exhibited a gift for mathematics from an early age
During the Crimean War, Nightingale invented a diagram she called the coxcomb or polar area chart — equivalent to a modern circular histogram or rose diagram — to illustrate seasonal sources of patient mortality in the military field hospital she managed. These were essentially the first contributions to circular statistics.
Short conclusion
Love yourself and be claiming equality and demanding rights!
