{"id":55150,"date":"2015-03-11T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=55150"},"modified":"2015-03-11T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T07:09:08","slug":"celebrating-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55150","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSunday, March 8, was International Women&#8217;s Day, helping to kick off Women&#8217;s History Month in March. Women&#8217;s Day has been celebrated in America since 1909 and in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland since 1911. In 1975, the United Nations finally declared it an international holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Companies and organizations around the world and the web are celebrating women, and here are a few of the sites I thought you&#8217;d enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biographile.com\/celebrate-international-womens-day-with-quotes-from-9-literary-ladies\/40412\/\">Biographile<\/a>, Random House&#8217;s nod to literary biographies, celebrates with &#8220;quotes from 9 literary ladies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55151\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55151\" class=\"wp-image-55151\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/women.jpg\" alt=\"women\" width=\"501\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-55151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maya Angelou, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood, Biographile.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Microsoft reminds us that girls like science, too, with their latest commercial:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5eJYW4ew5eg?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Visit Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoftwomenintech.in\/\">Women In Tech<\/a> site for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notthere.noceilings.org\/\">The initiative<\/a>, a collaboration between the Clinton Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, posted this celebrity-, fun- (and fact-) filled video:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RBhLkRICmGE?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Google featured a doodle of women astronauts, engineers, scientists, and judges, linking to #DearMe, asking women to create a GIF that answers the question: &#8220;What advice would you give your younger self?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AbqT_ubkT0Y?feature=player_detailpage\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nWhat will you do to celebrate Women&#8217;s History Month?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, March 8, was International Women&#8217;s Day, helping to kick off Women&#8217;s History Month in March. Women&#8217;s Day has been celebrated in America since 1909 and in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland since 1911. In 1975, the United Nations finally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/55150\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}