March 8 of the Gregorian calendar is international working women's day. This festival originated in the United States, but now it is almost no longer this festival in the United States. Why? What are the reasons for the disappearance of international working women's day in the United States? In this article, I will analyze the reasons why the United States is not women's day from several aspects. Let's have a look.
1. The great advancement of American women
In the last century, the United States introduced a series of bills to protect women's status, especially the affirmative action bill, which has made earth shaking changes in women's status. With the right to vote, there can be no gender discrimination in school and employment, and there is also a legal guarantee in terms of equal pay for equal work. Although there are still imperfections, there is no obvious discrimination, On the contrary, the worried party began to become an employer, as more and more such lawsuits ended in women's victory. In addition, the United States is very protective of women in civil divorce cases. As long as there is no fatal fault, they will generally get custody of their children. During marriage, regardless of whether the wife works or has income, the property will be divided equally or the wife will get more. If the woman has no income or low income after divorce, the ex husband will not only pay child support, The spouse's alimony is also paid until the spouse remarries or dies, unless they are notarized before marriage.
2. Businesses have no hype value
Valentine's Day is warm, mother's Day is love, and Christmas is Thanksgiving. These festivals are of profound significance. Businesses hype like fish in water, which is also easy to move people's hearts, and then try their best to spend money. On the contrary, the March 8th Festival has the aggressive color of women's rights, which is difficult to hype. Without the help of businessmen, such political festivals are difficult to go far after all.
3. American traditional festivals cover many meanings of women's day
Although Valentine's day and mother's day are not legal holidays in the United States, they are very valued in the United States because they have strong traditions and are very warm. During these festivals, girlfriends, wives and mothers will get expensive gifts from their boyfriends, husbands and children, and go out to dinner with their families. In addition, the United States also has a statutory federal holiday called labor day, which aims to protect labor rights and interests. This right applies to men and women. Therefore, it is not necessary to find another holiday to protect women's work rights and interests.
When I write here, I suddenly think of the sentence in Ding Ling's article "feeling on March 8" published in Yan'an Liberation Daily in 1942, "when will the word" women "not be paid attention to and do not need to be put forward in particular?" In today's United States, women's status is really very high. In addition to Hillary Clinton, rice and others who once held high positions, the emergence of the first female president will not be too far away. Women's status really doesn't need a holiday to show it.
Countries that list international women's day as legal holidays include Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso], Cambodia, the people's Republic of China (women only), Cuba, Georgia, Guinea Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macedonia (women only), Madagascar (women only), Moldova, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia.
In some countries, such as Cameroon, Croatia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Chile, international women's Day is not a public holiday, but it is widely recognized. On this day, men routinely give flowers and small gifts to women in their lives - friends, mothers, wives, friends, daughters, colleagues, etc. In some countries (such as Bulgaria and Romania), it is also regarded as equivalent to mother's day, where children give small gifts to their mothers and grandmothers.