International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities.

the meaning of International Womens Day

International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity.

International Women’s Day (IWD) has been observed since the early 1900’s – a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. International Women’s Day is a collective day of global celebration and a call for gender parity. No one government, NGO, charity, corporation, academic institution, women’s network or media hub is solely responsible for International Women’s Day. Many organizations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their specific agenda or cause, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others. For more info. Please check here Click 

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International Women’s Day – A reading comprehension test on the topic of International Women’s Day

Vocabulary :

• vibrant — fully alive
• discrimination — unfair treatment
• grim — harsh, relentless
• pandemic — disease spread over wide areas
• alleviate — reduce
• vulnerable — likelihood towards
• to exhort — to urge strongly
• moribund — stagnant, doesn’t move well
• pioneer — first to act

Grammar:

Each of these sentences contains one error. Find and correct the error.

Women urge unity to advance rights as they mark International Women’s Day

1) Women marked International Women’s Day around the world with vibrant calls for unity for advance sexual equality and women’s rights.

2) In Tehran several hundred of Iranian female activists staged a rally to mark of International Women’s Day, despite of warnings from authorities that the gathering was illegal. (Omit 3 words)

3) The United Nations urged man to reject violence against woman in order to protect their daughter from the AIDS pandemic. (Three errors)

4) The Vatican asked the United Nations to condemn all sexual violence against women in a submission to the Commission on the Status of Women meet in New York.

5) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat meanwhile called on women a world over to oppose the Israeli occupation in the speech marking International Women’s Day. (two errors)

6) In Italy, men reported spent five million euros (6.2 million dollars) sending text messages on their cell phones to tell the women in their lives how much they appreciate them.

7) And Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi exhorted his countrywoman to have more babies, saying legislation must ensure that work and motherhoods are compatible and would spur the country’s development. (two errors)

8) Several governments payed lip service to the women’s cause.

9) Stalinist North Korea also marked the day with a call for women to give birth to more children and take a leading role in revive the country’s moribund economy.

10) In Norway, often a pioneer in issues of gender equality, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik said the country was in its way toward reaching its goal of becoming the first country with women in at least 40 percent of public sector management positions.

Check Your Answers:

1) Change “for” to “to”
2) Omit of 3 times
3) change to: men, women, daughters
4) meeting
5) switch a and the
6) reportedly
7) countrywomen, motherhood
8) paid
9) reviving
10) on its way

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