8 MARCH 2013
What will you do to make women visible?

FRIDAY 8 MARCH 2013
In 2013, a new partnership has been formed to celebrate International Women's Day in Wrexham, with the help of funding from the Welsh Assembly Government and adminstered through the Women's Equality Network Wales.

Join in on the day, as a partner or participant, to celebrate the strengths and achievements of women from all over the world!




Wrexham International Women's Day
Catrin Finch Centre
Glyndwr University
Wrexham
1pm-9pm
ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
In 1910 a 2nd International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named a Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was born.






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IWD is now an official holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China (for women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Madagascar (for women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal (for women only), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia.
