Thought For The Day – Monday 10th March 2025
Sheroes
There are 6 school weeks for Year 11 and 7 school weeks for Year 13 until Final Examination Study Leave commences. Keep making every day, healthily, matter. Keep listening to members of staff, who have lived this journey, taking responsibility, looking after yourself and others.
Saturday 8th March was International Women’s Day. It was the 30th anniversary of “IWD”.
The second photograph above marks this in the House of Commons. Currently, there are the 263 women Members of Parliament. A letter from the Prime Minister to his daughter is printed below. The painting above is by Gordon Bruce.
International Women’s Day is an important day to celebrate, highlight, make visible, recognize and deeply respect female contributions, role models and stories.
International Women’s Day is also a day to raise awareness of the evil of sexism and misogyny, suffered in person and on-line, and to commit to positive action in thoughts, words and deeds, every day, to eradicate this and to ally against wrong.
This commitment to being anti-sexist helps the health of: others; our society; our relationships; and ourselves. We put ourselves in the shoes of others.
As the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, observed at the weekend, so much progress has been made in history: “When the doors of equal opportunity are open for women and girls, everyone wins. Equal societies are more prosperous and peaceful and the foundation of sustainable development. Women and girls have shattered barriers and defied stereotypes. When women and girls rise, we all rise.”
But, said the Secretary-General, we have so much still to do, particularly as we guard against what he called “push back and roll back”, particularly on-line, where there are “new arenas of harassment and abuse”, and in different areas other areas of life, such as employment, laws, peace-building, politics and care. “Age-old horrors – violence, discrimination and economic inequality still plague societies. We must fight these outrages. Let us stand firm in making rights equality and empowerment a reality for all women and girls for everyone everywhere”, said Secretary-General Guterres.
The vast and absolutely overwhelming majority of sexism and negative gender prejudice and negative gender discrimination has been, and is still, suffered by women and girls.
At The Bishop’s Stortford High School we stand with women and girls locally, nationally and internationally to create a better community, society and world. For everyone. “Her Game Too”.
Who is your/ our sheroes? Family always. And beyond.
What kind of world do you/we want for daughters, mothers and sisters?
Every day is International Women’s Day.
