celebrating International Women’s Day
This week, in fact this whole month, we are celebrating international women’s day! As women, we feel that celebrating this day (and month) is an important aspect in recognizing the work, talent, struggles, beauty, and challenges that women (and those who identify as women) have on an international scale. Although international in scale, the origins of Women’s Day were solidified in Europe in the early 1900’s. According to Time Magazine Online, “ in 1910, German activist Clara Zetkin suggested to the International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen the creation of an international holiday to honour women. Europeans recognized International Women’s Day in 1911, although the U.S. did not follow suit” until 1978.
International Women’s month was first declared in California in 1978 when, “the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women planned the week and timed it with International Women’s Day”. Since then, countries around the world recognize March as the official month of, and for, women. Funnily enough, it is also our birthday month!
How to Celebrate and Support Women this month
Being both women, and women entrepreneurs, we are very partial to celebrating this month and recognizing our fellow women business owners. There are so many different ways to show support and celebrate the amazing women in your lives! That being said, we compiled a little list below on how you can support some amazing women-run businesses this month. Bonus: most of these suggestions do not require any cash - but if you wanna spend some, we highly encourage you!
How TLC Is Celebrating
This year, aside from doing the things mentioned above, we are also giving mad shout-outs to all the women we love, work with, admire, and are inspired by. For this month’s newsletter we will be featuring some of our favourite women small business owners and talking about what makes them so darn special. So if you haven’t signed up yet, you should - it’s chalk-full of some amazing stuff! We hope you all have an amazing time celebrating International Women’s Day and you help to support all the special women in your life!
