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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Intl women's day video

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Coffeesnob11 · 22/02/2023 11:02

After much campaigning by me my work has finally agreed to 'celebrate' International women's day. They have asked us to do a 10 second video on why it's important to celebrate international women's day. I am struggling to compact everything into such a short time frame. Does anyone have any good ideas of what to say that will make an impact.
Although I am in the UK we are International. In the UK are mainly men (80%)
Many thanks

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HereForTheFreeLunch · 22/02/2023 11:29

10 seconds?? Why so short?

RoseslnTheHospital · 22/02/2023 11:33

Ten seconds? How could you say anything at all in that timeframe? Are they taking the mick?

It's basically one short sentence.

Coffeesnob11 · 22/02/2023 11:38

I have no idea but I am trying to think at least its something. I completely agree though.

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RoseslnTheHospital · 22/02/2023 11:41

I'd probably have a look at the IWD website and see if they have any resources with any snappy phrases, or short summaries of statistics about VAWG or discrimination etc.

CompleteGinasaur · 22/02/2023 11:42

How about something like "the reason we need to celebrate International Women's Day can be summed up by you thinking we can get it all in ten sec...." Beeeeeep...

nepeta · 22/02/2023 15:35

CompleteGinasaur · 22/02/2023 11:42

How about something like "the reason we need to celebrate International Women's Day can be summed up by you thinking we can get it all in ten sec...." Beeeeeep...

This.

The reason to celebrate International Women's Day is that it is still needed. In fact, women's status is not improving in most countries and it is getting worse in several.

What's fascinating is that in some places it is being turned into something like Mother's Day, i.e., a time to give flowers to the women in your family. That is nice, in a way, but it completely neuters the real reasons for the day which is what is happening in Afghanistan, the still-strong view that women are inferior to men as a sex, and many new counter-currents to feminism.

IwantToRetire · 22/02/2023 16:52

Whatever you do, do not use any resources on the web site calling itself International Women's Day. This is a corporate company that has appropriated IWD as a money making venture.

And it is a great shame that so many women are so easily taken in and just follow it with engaging their brains.

IWD has a very varied history, for instance in communist Russia it was common to give women flowers as though doing this would offset the fact that many of them were doing long days paid work, and then going home to do domestice work.

But was associated in western countries with women demanding better workding conditions.

In 1970s IWD influenced by the WLM became more radical, and was usually the occasion for marches or local get togethers to celebrate what women had achieved and what they wanted to.

This is the UN's history of IWD www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/news/womday97.htm

Maybe as the video is for your work, you could look at it from the perspective of that work and women's role in it.

Or just stick to the basics ie around the world women are discriminated in terms of being the ones who give birth, unequal pay, violence, sexism. You could easily get stats on that.

ie IWD is a reminder that sexism is alive and thriving and that women have the right to equally participate in society.

RoseslnTheHospital · 22/02/2023 16:56

@IwantToRetire I did not know that the website represents a corporate entity, thank you for highlighting this. I should have checked that out before mentioning it here. I assumed it would be a charity.

IwantToRetire · 22/02/2023 18:05

I assumed it would be a charity.

I think that is what they are / were counting on. Some years ago a radical feminist group challenged them every year, and unfortunately if appealed to corporate groups, and then local government groups just went with the tide.

Its a real lesson on how someone who has nothing to do with the purpose / cause of whatever, just comes to be seen to be as the "owner" of the event.

I am sure there are other examples of this.

HereForTheFreeLunch · 22/02/2023 18:11

As a video you won't get my much (any?) talk in in 10 seconds so concentrate on dramatic images maybe.
An info graphic or a set of contrasting pictures - women in different roles across the country or world.

nov1ce · 22/02/2023 18:43

The videos that play each frame with a short frame in quick succession (less than 1 second) are good, often used in sport and add stats, quotes or phrases.

We are planning an external speaker, some internal posters and a quiz. Interested to hear what others are doing.

IwantToRetire · 22/02/2023 19:14

Goodness - I totally missed the bit about 10 secs ... but see others making sensible suggestions in terms of how much you can cover.

And ...

I was trying to find the statement from the women's groups who stood up to Aurora, but couldn't find it. But this news story did come up!

Glenda Stone, the boss from hell who's Labour's ambassador for women at work
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1233305/Glenda-Stone-boss-hell-whos-Labours-ambassador-women-work.html

Her company Aurora Ventures runs the IWD website.

"Australian entrepreneur Glenda Stone, who founded the website, said: "A decade ago International Women's Day was disappearing. Activity in Europe, where International Women's Day actually began, was very low. Providing a global online platform helped sustain and accelerate momentum for this important day."

nov1ce · 07/03/2023 11:45

@Coffeesnob11 how did the video turn out? Can we see it? Smile

CloudPop · 07/03/2023 12:47

Flash up your gender pay gap report and say you're looking forward to seeing how things have improved by next IWD

HereForTheFreeLunch · 08/03/2023 13:54

"CloudPop" that's a good one!

Coffeesnob11 · 08/03/2023 19:15

I can share it as its internal only but there was only 1 man who took part and I was the only one from the London office who took part, not even the esg director was involved!!! It was okay but at least last year they posted publicly. This year it was only internal. Thanks for all your help.
I just said women are more likely to be the victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault and have less access to education and equal pay globally.

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