{"id":562,"date":"2010-03-08T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/?p=562"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:31:26","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/2010\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women&#039;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<dl><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/cha\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2010\/03\/Picture-009-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"International Women's Day\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> International Women&#8217;s Day<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>International Women&#8217;s Day is celebrated yearly on March 8th. It is a day of global celebration of women.\u00a0 A celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is also a time to celebrate the \u00a0economic, political and social achievements of women.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States.\u00a0 This year, Chicago Community Counsellors participated in an Internation Women&#8217;s Day Fair at the Union League Club in Chicago.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women&#8217;s Day International Women&#8217;s Day is celebrated yearly on March 8th. It is a day of global celebration of women.\u00a0 A celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is also a time to celebrate the \u00a0economic, political and social achievements of women. \u00a0 \u00a0 The first IWD was observed on 28 February 1909  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/chicagoarea\/2010\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,32,88],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-au-pair","tag-childcare","tag-international-womens-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>International Women&#039;s Day - The Chicago Area Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Women&#039;s Day - The Chicago Area Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"International Women&#8217;s Day International Women&#8217;s Day is celebrated yearly on March 8th. 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