PRESS RELEASE: Happy International Women’s Day from the Team at International Mens Day
Happy International Women’s Day
The International Men’s Day team congratulate the women of the world on the 114th celebration of International Women’s Day, which started in 1911. Three years ago, in 2021 the theme we celebrated for International Men’s Day was, ‘better relations between men and women’. This is still one of our core objectives.
Please make sure you thank and appreciate the women in your life on 8 March by saying. “Happy International Women’s Day!
Launched in 1999, and now celebrated in more than 90 countries worldwide, International Men’s Day (IMD) is gaining great momentum. One of the six pillars of International Men’s Day is: “To promote positive male role models; not just movie stars and sports men but every day, working class men who are living decent, honest lives.” In this light, the theme for IMD 2024 is ‘Positive Male Role Models’.
Warwick Marsh, IMD coordinator said, “Men must work together with women to reverse the so-called gender war and build better relations between men and women. Together we can bring hope and healing to the human race. So, on 8 March, let us greet everyone with a smile and the words, ‘Happy International Women’s Day’.”
Marsh continued, “Men who are positive male role models are dedicated to the service of others, including women and children. During war time men give their lives in massive acts of bravery on behalf of women and children. Sadly 93% of workplace deaths each year are men. During peace time men give their lives working hard day and night for the women and children in their lives. We encourage all men to wish women on 8 March a ‘Happy International Women’s Day!”
Dr Jerome Teelucksingh, founder of International Men’s Day, from Trinidad & Tobago said, “International Men’s Day has the potential to become the global medium to heal our world. The concept and themes of International Men’s Day are designed to give hope to the depressed, faith to the lonely, comfort to the broken-hearted, transcend barriers, eliminate stereotypes and create a more caring humanity. I and the team at International Men’s Day believe now is the time to honour our daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, grandmothers and our female friends by wishing them Happy International Women’s Day.”
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For interview contact:
Warwick Marsh: 61 418 225 212
Dr Jerome Teelucksingh email: [email protected]
International Men’s Day on the 19 November was founded in 1999 by Dr Jerome Teelucksingh a history lecturer at University of the West Indies in Trinidad Tabago. Interestingly calls for an International Men’s Day (IMD) have been going on since at least the 1960’s when it was reported in the New York Times, Feb 24 1969 that “Many men have been agitating privately to make February 23 International Men’s Day, the equivalent of March 8, which is International Women’s day“ This Day for women was first inaugurated in 1909
Since the 1960’s there have been persistent international calls for the creation of an IMD, calls in the form of rhetorical questions about gender equality, eg. “Why do women have an international celebration and not men?” and more commonly in the form of statements like “Men’s contributions and concerns deserve a day of recognition in their own right” i.e. not merely by analogy with International Women’s Day.
In more recent decades there have been a number of attempts at establishing an IMD in individual countries (eg. Canada, France, USA, Colombia, Russia, Canada, China) with the hope that these gestures would be witnessed abroad by others who might follow suit and join in to celebrate their own IMD in synchrony with the founders. Whilst small celebrations of this nature were apparently observed by individuals in several countries they suffered a lack of publicity necessary to reach interested parties abroad, and therefore the initiatives were not continued.
In the early 1990s, for instance, organizations in the United States, Europe, and Australia held small events in February at the invitation of Professor Thomas Oaster who directed the Missouri Center for Men’s Studies at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Oaster successfully promoted the event in 1994, but his following attempt in 1995 was poorly attended and he ceased plans to continue the event in subsequent years.
Whilst the Australians also ceased to observe the event again until November 19, 2003, only the Maltese Association for Men’s Rights continued to observe the event each year in February. As the single remaining country still observing the earlier February celebration, the Maltese AMR Committee voted in 2009 to shift the date of their observation to November 19 at the request of Australian International Mens Day organisors.
The Australian men and fathers advocates are the same group who established the current International Mens Day website. www.internationalmensday.com The Australian IMD organisors brought several other countries into line with the small group of countries that had newly come to celebrate on the November date which was inaugurated in Trinidad and Tobago by Dr. Jerome Teelucksingh in 1999. In 2008 Dads4kids pioneered an historic celebration at the NSW state parliament and did the same in 2013 in federal parliament in Canberra Australia’s Capital.
https://dads4kids.org.au/