I’ve had enough of what International Women’s Day has become – here’s why I think it needs a reset

Channel News Asia ^ | 08 Mar 2025 | Izza Haziqah Abdul Rahman

[nickcarraway]

This writer is done with the way International Women's Day has become a token corporate holiday in Singapore. Instead of gimmicky sales and events that feature only corporate leaders, organisations that observe IWD should spotlight a wider range of women and celebrate their stories more genuinely.

When I first got to know of International Women’s Day (IWD), I was in secondary school. It felt so amazing to know there was a day meant to celebrate women, shed light on the complex issues they faced daily, and support women from all walks of life in various ways.

Lately, however, that rose-tinted view is gone. Every year, as Mar 8 looms, I find myself feeling more and more exhausted by IWD.

Before you dismiss me for complaining about yet another celebratory day in the year, hear me out. International Women’s Day began in the early 1900s. According to its website, IWD was a labour movement across North America and Europe, rallying for women’s rights at work, in politics and healthcare, and daily life.

[HIDEK6]

yawn

[Qwapisking]

like some cars, it’s hard to tell the difference between a stick and an automatic at a glance.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Women have their problems and men have theirs. What day is international men’s day?

I don’t need a day to beotch and moan about being a poor benighted woman. 😣

[b4me]

no reset. no need for it. stop trying to glorify various segments of people and spend more time being a decent human being amongst everyone else around you.

[dfwgator]

What’s a woman?

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[BenLurkin]

“Did you bring the IWD?”

[Organic Panic]

My woman made me a sandwich and folded my shirts. I got lucky.

[Organic Panic]

“IWD was a labour movement across North America and Europe”

Just more marxist BS

[bravo whiskey]

The march for IWD on 23 February 1917 (O.S.) in Petrogad would be the start of the Russian Revolution and the end of Nicholas II.
The Bolshevik takeover in October was not a revolution as described in the past but a coup.

[Dr. Franklin]

Just more marxist BS

WP lists it as something coming from socialist and the women's suffrage movements. It was very big in the Soviet Union and was like their Valentine's Day.

[No name given]

If only Marxism didn’t exist at all.

[Moltke]

Fascinating!

Anyway, does anyone know when Runny Cheese day is this year?

[Libloather]

...shed light on the complex issues they faced daily...

It's bread, meat, bread. One job.

[who knows what evil?]

My girl has been in the kitchen ALL day...roasting coffee, processing and freezing a 25-pound bag of carrots, making a huge batch of cole slaw, sorting thru some Helene relief goods and supplies...that kind of stuff. Sliders for dinner.

[MayflowerMadam]

I’ve never even heard of it. It’s actually a thing?

[Truthsearcher]

It’s a Marxist astroturfed “holiday”.

Every holiday that has the word “international” in front of it is pretty much a holiday made up by Marxists.

[Bigg Red]

Ditto!

Men have lots of problems, too, but they get on with life instead of whining about it.

[Bigg Red]

True.