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Category: Women
Highlighting global events relating to women.
The Women Category focuses on biological women, their needs, health, wants, and desires. For events addressing non-binary persons or gender-identifying alternatives, see the LGBTQ+ category.
Women Events
Santa Barbara's Day (C): December 4
Daily
For all the young women hoping to marry, Santa Barbara's Day has a special meaning. The legend goes that if a single girl or woman puts a branch of a cherry tree in water on this day, and it blooms by Chr...
January
Older Drivers Safety Week, Ntl.: December...
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January
Jane Addams Day (1931): December 10
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On December 10, 1931, Jane Addams received the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering efforts in Social Work. She is the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This event was first celebra...
January
Babinden (RU/BG): January 23
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Babinden is a Bulgarian traditional observance celebrated in Russia and known as the Day of the Midwives. On this day, women and children under three rise at dawn and head to the local well where they dra...
January
Birth Defects Prevention Month, Ntl.: Janu...
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National Birth Defects Prevention Network sponsors National Birth Defects Prevention Month each year. See the consortium’s website for details on this year’s focus and to download materials and study a...
January
Caesarean Section Day (1794): January 14
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Caesarean Section Day marks the anniversary of the first successful Caesarean Section, performed in America by Dr. Jesse Bennett January 14, 1794. This first procedure, done in the patients home in Virgi...
January
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: January
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Cervical Cancer Awareness Month seeks to raise the awareness about this highly treatable disease. Multiple different screening tests for cervical cancer and there vaccines against human papilloma virus (H...
January
Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (UK): Janu...
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Every day two women lose their life to Cervical Cancer and nine are diagnosed with it in the United Kingdom. Yet 75% of instances can be prevented with an annual pap smear and taking the HPV vaccination i...
January
Folic Acid Awareness Week, Ntl.: January 5...
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National Folic Acid Awareness Week is an awareness campaign by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Folic acid is a B-vitamin that is necessary for proper cell growth. If taken before and duri...
January
Kiss a Ginger (Redhead) Day: January 12
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International Kiss a Ginger Day began on Facebook in 2008 as a protest against a mean-spirited holiday urging people to kick redheads. Only 1.5% of the world’s population are natural redheads. It is t...
January
Meitlisunntig (CH): January 12
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During the Villmergen War of 1712, the women of the townships of Meisterschwaden and Fahrwangen Switzerland paraded to the frontlines to assist the men fighting. Each year in honor of this event, the youn...
January
Midwife's / Women's Day (GR): January 8
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The Greeks know how to make a celebration fun. Midwife's or Women's Day in Greece is held annually. Women of childbearing age get out of the house, dine and pamper and leave caring and cleaning to men for...
January
Roe-v-Wade Day (1973): January 22
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January 22, 1973 saw the landmark decision by the United States Court on Roe v. Wade and on Doe v. Bolton. This ruling made abortion legal in the United States and provided women with the choice of having...
January
Girls & Women's in Sports Day: February 5
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National Girls & Women in Sports is an annual celebration of the Women's Sports Foundation to honor the contributions, achievements and importance of women's sports professionally and scholastically. It s...
January
Wear Red Day for Heart Disease, Ntl.: Febr...
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Created by the National Institute of Health in 2002, National Wear Red Day occurs on the first Friday of February each year. It is a day women are urged to wear the color red to raise awareness and as a r...
January
Engineering Day, Introduce a Girl to: Febr...
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One day of National Engineering Week in the US each year is dedicated to getting young women and girls interested in engineering. Dubbed ‘Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day’, company and institutions inv...
January
Shrovetide Pancake Race (UK/US-KS): Februa...
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Talk about tradition, the Shrovetide Pancake Race has been held nearly annually since 1445 AD! This race is only open to women sixteen years of age, who dress in traditional housewife attire (dress, apro...
January
Teal Ribbon Day (AU): February 26
Daily
Teal Ribbon Day supports Australians living with ovarian cancer, honors those whom have succumb and raises awareness of this deadly disease to change the story for future generations. Every day in Austra...
January
Sadie Hawkins/Bachelor's Day: February 29*
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Sadie Hawkins Day occurs annually in November. However, during leap years, February 29th is also set aside as Sadie Hawkins or Bachelor's Day. According to tradition, unwed women can ask their intended...
January
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (AU): Febru...
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Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month is held each year in Australia to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer, to share the stories of real women affected by the disease, to highlight the r...
January
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