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Organisations supporting IWD: Governments supporting IWD: Universities supporting IWD: - Bethlehem University, Palestine
- Boise State University, Idaho, US
- La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
- London City & Islington College, UK
- Fordham University, New York
- Monash University, Australia
- University of Colarado, US
- University of Kansas, US
- University of Minnesota, US
- University of Vermont, US
- University of Western Sydney, Australia
Media groups
supporting IWD: - Aljazeera TV, Doha, Qatar
- BBC, UK
- Bloomberg, UK
- Colorado Daily Newspaper, US
- CNN, US
- Guardian Newspapers Ltd, UK
- KUJH-TV, Kansas, US
- Radio Prague, Czech Republic
- Russia Today, Russia
- Women's Radio Fund, Vancouver, Canada
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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.
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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.
Take a look at some of these websites of women's groups using
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- Atlanta Women's Network
- Aurora Women's Network
- Business & Professional Women
- International Business Women’s Group
- Women in Business
- Women in Technoloy International |
www.atlantawomensnetwork.org
www.auroravoice.com
www.bpwusa.org
www.ibwgabudhabi.org
www.womeninbusinessnetwork.org.uk
www.witi.com |
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PINK IS NOT A COLOUR REPRESENTING WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
The use of pink for girls and blue for boys represents the unfortunate
gender socialisation and female oppresion that occurs at a very
early age. Thus many feminists historically decried the use of
pink to represent females.
Of course there is nothing wrong with the colour pink - it's
just that when it is used to positively represent women it in
fact does quite the opposite.
Purple is the correct colour to be used if representing women's
advancement. Purple with green represents traditional feminism,
purple with gold represents progressive contemporary feminism.
The good thing abut women's progress means that you can of course
use any colour to represent your female focus ... brown anyone
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