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e celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2020 to acknowledge women’s achievements throughout history. International Women's Day (IWD), is dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements such as social, economical, cultural, and political successes. Throughout history women have significant impacts on the world in various ways on a national and global scale, but they are constantly being exposed to discrimination and judgment due to gender inequality in society.
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Other than the preparations that the Grade 9s carried out, the whole school –teachers, staff members, and students– wore purple shirts to school on Monday, March 9th. The reason we wore purple to celebrate International Women’s Day is that purple represents women and the combination of green, purple, and white represents equality between men and women. Furthermore, purple is historically associated with efforts to achieve equality. For thousands of years, women have been fighting for their rights. The Grade 9s met up on March 6th to make It is finally time to empower women and give them preparations for the upcoming International what they are entitled to. Women’s Day. Preparation included making presentations to help raise awareness during L&N “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she blocks, putting up posters on the bulletin board, stands up for all women.” writing book reviews on women’s books, and even – Maya Angelou creating hashtags to empower women. Tonnam, Tiro, Matthew, and Khaojao, G9