# It's International Women's Day Today!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-womens-day-today/440616>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 8, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-womens-day-today/440616 "2008-03-08T19:09:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-womens-day-today/440616/1 "2008-03-08T19:09:21Z")

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I’m not sure exactly what this entails. You go, girls?

Yay us!

Okay, doing a little research, I found [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women's_Day):

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> It is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.

So basically, yay us!

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**Author:** ![Paladud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Paladud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paladud)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-womens-day-today/440616/2 "2008-03-08T20:27:55Z")

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Back in Russia, all males gave flowers to their mothers and wives and (not sure if this was just my family or common) handled all household chores for the day.

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**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-international-womens-day-today/440616/3 "2008-03-09T00:52:37Z")

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Yay.  
I’m hoping to get Women’s History month back on track. It has started out badly, first with Charlotte Allen’s worthless piece of crap column in the Washington Post, then about 50% of the blogs I usually like starting to dump on Hillary every damn day, and now another thread in IMHO about how women just can’t get along and should probably just stay home instead.  
_sigh_