EC Montreal celebrated International Woman’s Day yesterday with a pancake breakfast for students. It is celebrated every year on March 8.
International Women’s Day was first observed in the early 1900’s in an effort to draw global attention to the fight for women’s equality and rights to work, vote, hold public office, and to ultimately end gender discrimination. In 1975, during International Women’s Year, the United Nations began celebrating March 8th as International Women’s Day.
We at EC Montreal celebrated the day by wearing the symbolic colors of purple and white. We encouraged all our students to do the same. We served a lovely woman’s day breakfast and decorated the student lounge with purple flowers and balloons. We also had a soundtrack with powerful woman singers and had information available to students on strong woman throughout history.
Every table had wonderful information about women throughout history and the most influential women over the one hundred years. We even had images of the most powerful women as well as the most infamous female artists in the world.
We served pancakes with Quebec maple syrup as well as other sweet treats like muffins, cupcakes and fresh berries.
Although much remains to be done to achieve full equality, the voices of women are being heard. So, make a difference, think globally and act locally!! Make every day International Women’s Day. Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, equal, safe and rewarding.
Staff members were encouraged to bring their daughters to school to celebrate this very special day. All females united to celebrate “girl power”.
International Women’s Day is a special day at EC Montreal! We look forward to it every year. There are many women who work for EC in teaching positions and in management positions and this day is to celebrate them! We also celebrate our female students who chose to improve their skills by choosing to learn another language. They are preparing for their future, learning about other cultures and becoming strong and independent women!
Here’s to strong women everywhere! May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.
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