Celebrating International Women’s Day
Filed Under: Motley Mots by Audrey Scott
In the United States, International Women’s Day comes and goes without much notice. Not so in Estonia when I lived there a decade ago.
“Buying flowers for every woman in the office on International Women’s Day” was technically not written into every man’s job description. Neither was “picking up bottles of champagne and cognac.” But both may as well have been.
All partying aside, International Women’s Day celebrates women and their roles and leadership in family, business and society. The occasion also brings awareness to the challenges and discrimination many women around the world continue to face.
In the spirit of this day, we bring you a mosaic of a few of the women we’ve met along our journey through Asia.
However you decide to celebrate, we wish you a Happy International Women’s Day!
March 8th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Happy International Women’s Day to you too, Audrey!
Each year I am waiting for this day, because there is no other day like this – I am sure you can’t meet more men with flowers (mostly tulips) than on 8th of March
Today it was a very special one – our cooks in Zoe’s made a huge Tiramisu for all Zoe’s women 
Despite rainy weahter and cloudy sky today, it made the day much brigther and happier 
Hope you got many flowers too
A.
March 11th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
@Agne: Your comment made me smile. I had visions of men running frantically around Vilnius with arms full of tulips making sure they didn’t forget any important women in their lives. What a great image!