International Women’s Day
Women rise to celebrate anniversary
Quakers were among those marking International Women’s Day on Tuesday.
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the first International Women’s Day, which was observed by socialists in Germany and North America in 1911.
The Quaker socialist Beatrice Cadbury was this year the subject of an International Women’s Day talk by the writer Fiona Joseph at Solihull Central Library. Beatrice, George Cadbury’s niece, denounced capitalism and took Jesus’ words at face value by giving away all her wealth.
Thousands of women took the opportunity to march through London on Saturday in the ‘Million Women Rise’ campaign against gender-based violence.
One Quaker woman who joined the demonstration told the Friend she was ‘deeply moved – to tears even’ by ‘the sheer force and passion of the women marching’.
