Women's Day

2023 - 3 - 8

Auckland Wāhine Toa Embrace Equity For International Women's ... (Scoop.co.nz)

A series of short films featuring some of New Zealand's most inspiring wāhine toa is being launched today to mark International Women's Day.

Auckland is the only New Zealand city to have hosted the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup 2022, Rugby World Cup 2021 (Playing in 2022), the International Working Group for Women in Sport 2022 and FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 – providing the unique opportunity to continue to elevate wāhine and leave an enduring legacy for women and girls. The series explores what hosting the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 in Auckland means for these wāhine toa, their industries and their communities – whether that’s the opportunity to enhance the profile of Auckland as a destination through the global reach of the tournament (estimated to be over 1.12 billion) or the platform it creates to ensure more equity for women and girls in sport. Led by Tātaki Auckland Unlimited, this project is part of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s leverage and legacy programme for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 and will be delivered as a series of bite-size films in the lead-up to the tournament, which kicks off at Eden Park in July.

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nib Blues celebrate International Women's Day with special ticket offer (All Blacks)

In a bid to boost support at Sky Super Rugby Aupiki matches, the nib Blues are celebrating International Women's Day with a special ticket offer.

This year marks the first full season of Super Rugby Aupiki; the competition’s inaugural season was cut short last year due to COVID. “This is a new era of women’s rugby, and it’s awesome to see our people getting behind it. Although Chiefs Manawa came out on top, nib Blues captain, Ruahei Demant, hopes to see that crowd grow for the semi-final weekend.

SunLive - Parkrun celebrates International Women's Day - The Bay's ... (SunLive)

The Tauranga Parkrun will be celebrating International Women's Day with a celebratory run this Saturday. Parkrun co-director Jez Rogers says it's about ...

It really is the best way to kick off your Saturday.” It’s a chance to set goals, and work towards achieving them. Whatever your age or fitness level we have an incredibly supportive community at parkrun and you get to walk or run through the beautiful Kopurererua valley. “Parkrun has become such a huge part of my life now, in that, when I go away, I will look for a parkrun to participate in and if I happen to be unable to do a parkrun on a Saturday morning my day is ‘just not right’. “Where it specifically aligns with International Women’s Day is in the large number of women who are part of our parkrun community and in our shared sense around the importance of empowering women.” Parkrun is a weekly, free and friendly 5km community event that happens in towns and cities across the world, with a primary vision of creating an inclusive and empowering community environment for people of all physical abilities to come together for a walk or run.

Women's Day: Italy's gift in short supply (Otago Daily Times)

Italy's celebrations of International Women's Day risk being spoiled by a drought that has slashed production of yellow mimosa flowers traditionally gifted ...

The UN's theme this year is "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality." Focus has expanded to issues ranging from violence against women to parity in the workplace. This in turn has led to a steep increase in thefts of the flowers from farms by less well-off people determined not to disappoint the women in their lives.

Women's Day in Italy hit by drought as flower supply dries up (Reuters)

Italy's celebrations of International Women's Day on Wednesday risk being spoiled by a drought that has slashed production of the yellow mimosa flowers that ...