HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!!

	For those still unaware of it, there's an International Women's Day (IWD) website. Please visit it for updates on women's equal rights, events and matters concerning women. Women's groups have been using the logos below to symbolize what they stand for and emphasize their advocacies. HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY! THE IWD COLOURS Purple, green and white are the official international women's colours. The colours originated from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908. The colours were said to represent: white for purity in public as well as private life purple for justice, dignity, self-reverence and self-respect (and representing the women's vote) green for hope and new life. The colours unified the women's movement and emphasised the femininity of the suffragettes. The tricolour of the WSPU soon became a visual cue for the women's movement in other countries. Purple, green and white were worn on International Women's Day and were used for other women's movement banners and posters. More recently, two changes have occured: the use of the colour white has more recently been rejected as 'purity' is a controversial issue and attitudes towards the role of 'purity' from women differ greatly the introduction of the colour gold representing 'a new dawn' has been commonly used to represent the second wave of feminism.
	MANY WOMEN'S GROUPS USE PURPLE Many women's groups around the world who understand, respect and chose to honour the history and progress made by the suffragettes use purple as their predominant representative colour. These websites of women's groups use the representative purple:
	Atlanta Women's Network http://www.atlantawomensnetwork.org/ Aurora Women's Network http://www.auroravoice.com/network.asp Business & Professional Women http://www.bpwusa.org/ International Business Women’s Group http://www.ibwgabudhabi.org/ Women in Business http://www.womeninbusinessnetwork.org.uk/ Women in Technoloy International http://www.witi.com/center/aboutwiti/