March 3, 2025 • 9 mins
March is Women's History Month, and SMNTY will celebrate no matter what the US administration says. Anney and Samantha give a rundown of this event, and of how organizations are addressing progress - and lack of.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I hope this stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I never told you a pricing to buy her radio
And welcome to another Monday Minnie. This is the first
Monday Minnie in March of twenty twenty five. Can you
believe it's Samantha.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I mean, I feel like it's like twenty thirty as
well as twenty twelve, So I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Anything that's fair's fair. But anyway, that's not what we're
talking about today. Today we were talking about Women's History Month,
because that is what the month of March is.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We do it all the time on this show.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's kind of obviously, Oh that's our entire show, yes.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But I did want to shout it out since, especially
as we discussed in our recent calendar episode, our DEI
episode with Bridget, a lot of companies are trying to
erase things like this, like Black History Month, Women's History Month,
but not here hell no, no, no, no, no no no.
(01:14):
So I just wanted to look into it and maybe
kickstart off the month, get some ideas from you listeners. Hopefully,
I would love to hear from all of you if
you do any celebrations. I was looking at events, people do,
and I got a wide range of things like wine
and cheese Women's History Night, or like children's book reading,
(01:37):
like I got a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Or you could do like what we're going to do,
and we're going to reunite with some friends who love
to talk about women's history.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We aretent hint.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That, yes, we are doing a lot of interviews this
month that we're very excited about, so keep an ear
out for those. But yeah, let us know if there
are things you want us to do, if you're a
hosting event, we'd love to hear about it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But yeah, just a really brief history here.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I know we've talked about it more in depth in
the past, but you can so you can check out
those episodes. But Women's History Week kicked off in nineteen
seventy eight in California. It was sort of an educational
celebration that then caught on across the US to coincide
with International Women's Day in March. The first time that
(02:26):
International Women's Day happened was in nineteen eleven. In nineteen eighty,
a group of women successfully campaigned then President Jimmy Carter,
who released a presidential proclamation recognizing the week of March
eighth as National Women's History Week. In nineteen eighty seven,
the federal government recognized National Women's History Month, and beginning
(02:48):
in nineteen ninety five, every US president issued a statement
about Women's History Month when it rolled around until this year.
Of course, we'll see what happens, but I'm going to
assume nothing because we are recording this. We're recording this
on February twenty seven five, So you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Know, maybe a lot of at least Malaniay just come
up and way at us.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't know, that's all we get. Yes, that's all.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's all an immigrant, white woman waving us from afar.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yes, yeah, all right, Well we'll see protections anyone.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We should have. Man, if we released this earlier, we
could have made this a whole like bingo game, like
a bedding pool.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Trying to predict things in this time is wild. I
don't know. I have to think about that myself, to
be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Probably a big fan zero.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think it's gonna That's what I think it's gonna be.
But we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean, it would be better than that than him
being like, you know what, let's make this even worse
and do things against trans women, which is what he's
already doing. So because he's awful.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yes, definitively Sminty can say, okay, Well, that being said,
twenty twenty five is the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action, which was this huge, sweeping
international document and agreement around women and girls rights around
the world. It tackled things like legal protections and social norms,
(04:24):
sexist ideas, access to services, and getting youth involved in
all of this. So you can still read the document
if you would like, or you can find kind of
the cliff notes version on the UN website. And this
year the UN is revisiting the Beijing Decoration with the
theme for All Women and Girls Rights, Equality, Empowerment for
(04:48):
Women's for International Women's Day on March eighth, twenty twenty five.
And so they have six main goals and they all
start for all women and girls. But I'm not going
to read that every time, but just know it all
starts with up a digital revolution, freedom from poverty, zero violence,
(05:08):
full an equal decision making, power, peace and security, climate justice.
And again if you go to their website, they have
like they have plans for how they're going to accomplish
these things. They have macro and microways you can participate
or what they're trying to do. They're still updating it
(05:31):
as we speak, so we'll see if more gets added.
According to the International Women's Day site, the theme this
year because they do themes I actually didn't know this,
and I feel ashamed of myself, but every year they do.
Themes is accelerate action. They posted. At the current rate
of progress, it will take until twenty one fifty eight,
which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full
(05:53):
gender parity. According to data from the World Economic Forum,
the theme selected by the National Women History Alliance or
twenty twenty five is moving forward together women, educating and
inspiring generations. Now, the interesting thing I'm I'm looking to
see what's going to what will unfold, is that these
(06:14):
companies that we've talked about, who so readily abandoned all
of this stuff, are still trying to capitalize it without
capitalize on it, without supporting it. So I got this
whole message from Amazon that's like give a woman in
your life a Woman's Day gift.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Really, wow, okay, okay, interesting, interesting, but yeah, I mean,
unfortunately if you go to the UN Sight for women,
they do have a lot of areas where we've progressed
(06:50):
around the world, especially in like things like domestic violence
and education, educational parody. But there's also been a lot
of backslide as I'm sure no I a surprise by
especially if you listen to the show. So they had
a bunch of like, we're going backwards in these areas too.
So we have a lot of things we're gonna have
to talk about and keep an eye on always, but
(07:15):
in this Women's History Month, just to keep in mind
all of these issues that we're facing and to always
keep that intersectionality in mind because it's a we've got
quite a fight ahead of us for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right And just an fyi, I remember reading this and
I just found it again. Trump was going against the
UN's Women's anything because it emphasized gender ideology or diversity,
equity and inclusion, and voted against anything within the UN
that would uplift that. So anything related to women, they
(07:56):
were like, no, we can't.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Literally, This is from truthout dot org. It says in
a statement, US Acting Representative to the UN Economic and
Social Counsel, Jonathan Schreier said that the US had quote
no other option than to vote against a document, saying
that the program conflicts with the US policies literally talking
about because it says DEI.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So yep, yep, that's.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Where we are.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's where we are, and that's why we're going to
keep We're going to keep sharing these stories, these important conversations.
It's still Women's History Month for us and for always.
But yeah, it's going to take a lot of us
working together to combat this. So again, listeners, let us
(08:40):
know what you would like us to talk about. If
you're doing anything, if you're having a party that would
be so cool to hear about. Yes, yeah, you can
email us at Hello at Stephane Never Told You dot com.
You can find us on blue Sky at mamsa podcast,
are on TikTok and Instagram at Stephane Never Told You.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
We're also on you Tube.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We have a tea public store, and we have a
book you can get where we get your books. Thanks
as always to our super producer Christina, our executive pruscer Maya, and.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Our contributor Joey. Thank you and thanks to you for listening.
Stuff on Never Told is the production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
For more podcasts from my heart Radio, you can check
out the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or where you listen
to your favorite shows.
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I hope this stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I never told you a pricing to buy her radio
And welcome to another Monday Minnie. This is the first
Monday Minnie in March of twenty twenty five. Can you
believe it's Samantha.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I mean, I feel like it's like twenty thirty as
well as twenty twelve, So I can't believe.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Anything that's fair's fair. But anyway, that's not what we're
talking about today. Today we were talking about Women's History Month,
because that is what the month of March is.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
We do it all the time on this show.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
It's kind of obviously, Oh that's our entire show, yes.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
But I did want to shout it out since, especially
as we discussed in our recent calendar episode, our DEI
episode with Bridget, a lot of companies are trying to
erase things like this, like Black History Month, Women's History Month,
but not here hell no, no, no, no, no no no.
(01:14):
So I just wanted to look into it and maybe
kickstart off the month, get some ideas from you listeners. Hopefully,
I would love to hear from all of you if
you do any celebrations. I was looking at events, people do,
and I got a wide range of things like wine
and cheese Women's History Night, or like children's book reading,
(01:37):
like I got a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Or you could do like what we're going to do,
and we're going to reunite with some friends who love
to talk about women's history.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
We aretent hint.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
That, yes, we are doing a lot of interviews this
month that we're very excited about, so keep an ear
out for those. But yeah, let us know if there
are things you want us to do, if you're a
hosting event, we'd love to hear about it.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
But yeah, just a really brief history here.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I know we've talked about it more in depth in
the past, but you can so you can check out
those episodes. But Women's History Week kicked off in nineteen
seventy eight in California. It was sort of an educational
celebration that then caught on across the US to coincide
with International Women's Day in March. The first time that
(02:26):
International Women's Day happened was in nineteen eleven. In nineteen eighty,
a group of women successfully campaigned then President Jimmy Carter,
who released a presidential proclamation recognizing the week of March
eighth as National Women's History Week. In nineteen eighty seven,
the federal government recognized National Women's History Month, and beginning
(02:48):
in nineteen ninety five, every US president issued a statement
about Women's History Month when it rolled around until this year.
Of course, we'll see what happens, but I'm going to
assume nothing because we are recording this. We're recording this
on February twenty seven five, So you.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Know, maybe a lot of at least Malaniay just come
up and way at us.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't know, that's all we get. Yes, that's all.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
That's all an immigrant, white woman waving us from afar.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yes, yeah, all right, Well we'll see protections anyone.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
We should have. Man, if we released this earlier, we
could have made this a whole like bingo game, like
a bedding pool.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Trying to predict things in this time is wild. I
don't know. I have to think about that myself, to
be honest.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Probably a big fan zero.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think it's gonna That's what I think it's gonna be.
But we'll see.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I mean, it would be better than that than him
being like, you know what, let's make this even worse
and do things against trans women, which is what he's
already doing. So because he's awful.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Yes, definitively Sminty can say, okay, Well, that being said,
twenty twenty five is the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action, which was this huge, sweeping
international document and agreement around women and girls rights around
the world. It tackled things like legal protections and social norms,
(04:24):
sexist ideas, access to services, and getting youth involved in
all of this. So you can still read the document
if you would like, or you can find kind of
the cliff notes version on the UN website. And this
year the UN is revisiting the Beijing Decoration with the
theme for All Women and Girls Rights, Equality, Empowerment for
(04:48):
Women's for International Women's Day on March eighth, twenty twenty five.
And so they have six main goals and they all
start for all women and girls. But I'm not going
to read that every time, but just know it all
starts with up a digital revolution, freedom from poverty, zero violence,
(05:08):
full an equal decision making, power, peace and security, climate justice.
And again if you go to their website, they have
like they have plans for how they're going to accomplish
these things. They have macro and microways you can participate
or what they're trying to do. They're still updating it
(05:31):
as we speak, so we'll see if more gets added.
According to the International Women's Day site, the theme this
year because they do themes I actually didn't know this,
and I feel ashamed of myself, but every year they do.
Themes is accelerate action. They posted. At the current rate
of progress, it will take until twenty one fifty eight,
which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full
(05:53):
gender parity. According to data from the World Economic Forum,
the theme selected by the National Women History Alliance or
twenty twenty five is moving forward together women, educating and
inspiring generations. Now, the interesting thing I'm I'm looking to
see what's going to what will unfold, is that these
(06:14):
companies that we've talked about, who so readily abandoned all
of this stuff, are still trying to capitalize it without
capitalize on it, without supporting it. So I got this
whole message from Amazon that's like give a woman in
your life a Woman's Day gift.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Really, wow, okay, okay, interesting, interesting, but yeah, I mean,
unfortunately if you go to the UN Sight for women,
they do have a lot of areas where we've progressed
(06:50):
around the world, especially in like things like domestic violence
and education, educational parody. But there's also been a lot
of backslide as I'm sure no I a surprise by
especially if you listen to the show. So they had
a bunch of like, we're going backwards in these areas too.
So we have a lot of things we're gonna have
to talk about and keep an eye on always, but
(07:15):
in this Women's History Month, just to keep in mind
all of these issues that we're facing and to always
keep that intersectionality in mind because it's a we've got
quite a fight ahead of us for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Right And just an fyi, I remember reading this and
I just found it again. Trump was going against the
UN's Women's anything because it emphasized gender ideology or diversity,
equity and inclusion, and voted against anything within the UN
that would uplift that. So anything related to women, they
(07:56):
were like, no, we can't.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Sorry.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Literally, This is from truthout dot org. It says in
a statement, US Acting Representative to the UN Economic and
Social Counsel, Jonathan Schreier said that the US had quote
no other option than to vote against a document, saying
that the program conflicts with the US policies literally talking
about because it says DEI.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
So yep, yep, that's.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Where we are.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
That's where we are, and that's why we're going to
keep We're going to keep sharing these stories, these important conversations.
It's still Women's History Month for us and for always.
But yeah, it's going to take a lot of us
working together to combat this. So again, listeners, let us
(08:40):
know what you would like us to talk about. If
you're doing anything, if you're having a party that would
be so cool to hear about. Yes, yeah, you can
email us at Hello at Stephane Never Told You dot com.
You can find us on blue Sky at mamsa podcast,
are on TikTok and Instagram at Stephane Never Told You.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
We're also on you Tube.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
We have a tea public store, and we have a
book you can get where we get your books. Thanks
as always to our super producer Christina, our executive pruscer Maya, and.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Our contributor Joey. Thank you and thanks to you for listening.
Stuff on Never Told is the production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
For more podcasts from my heart Radio, you can check
out the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast or where you listen
to your favorite shows.
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