{"id":9868,"date":"2019-03-08T22:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T03:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2019-03-08T22:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T03:42:49","slug":"celebrating-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/9868","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating International Women’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Lindsey Smith–<\/strong>Today is International\nWomen\u2019s Day, and with that comes a flood of social media posts about what it\nmeans to women to have a day to themselves, or how proud people are to be a woman,\nraise a woman, or know a woman. But what does it mean to the people in Iowa, to\nthe people around Morningside?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We asked, you answered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shukri Jama, a senior at\nUniversity of South Dakota said: \u201cInternational Women\u2019s Day means a day when we\nacknowledge the progress women made toward gender equality and remind ourselves\nthe work we still have to do to be fully equal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many women agreed with\nthis viewpoint, like Abby Maldonado, a senior standing Morningside College\nstudent and mom who said: \u201cIt means that we celebrate all women and the\nprogress we\u2019ve made in our society up to this point. It serves as a reminder\nthat all women are powerful and amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamdi Ahmed said: To me,\nInternational Women\u2019s Day is about recognizing and applauding the impressive\nwork that my female friends and colleagues do every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these women are in\ntheir early twenties and college educated, yet when I asked other women around\nthe same age who hadn\u2019t finished college and had started families responded\nsomewhat differently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marissa Oothoudt, mother\nof two, didn\u2019t even realize there was an International Women\u2019s Day. Once she\nresearched it she said: \u201cIt is a day to recognize women and everything they\nhave done. I don\u2019t think it should only be one day though, but to recognize all\nthe civil rights activists, those who are out there fighting to make the world\nan easier place to live in for women. Not saying it\u2019s difficult or hard, and by\nlive in I mean get a decent paying job. Also when we do get decent paying jobs,\nwe get treated as equals.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shianne Rubey, another\nyoung mother of two, said: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t really mean a whole lot to me. It was\nnever made a big deal so I never gave it much thought.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While we go to great\nlengths to teach more and more about women in history and the sacrifices they\nmade in order to provide modern women with their current lifestyles, it is\nclear that International Women\u2019s Day means something different depending on your\ncircumstances. In fact, some may think that a whole day dedicated to women\u2019s\naccomplishments isn\u2019t even necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think? Should\nInternational Women\u2019s Day and Women\u2019s History Month be addressed more in public\nschools, or should it just be another day? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lindsey Smith–Today is International Women\u2019s Day, and with that comes a flood of social media posts about what it means to women to have a day to themselves, or how proud people are to be a woman, raise a woman, or know a woman. But what does it mean to the people in Iowa,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[46965,46941,46880],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-womens-day","tag-morningside-college-2","tag-msidelife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/9870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}