City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0267R

• File #: 11-0267R
• Version: 0
• Name: Equal Access to Education, Training, and Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work For Women - A Baltimore City Celebration of International Women’s Day 2011
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/7/2011
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/7/2011
• Title: Equal Access to Education, Training, and Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work For Women - A Baltimore City Celebration of International Women’s Day 2011 FOR the purpose of joining the global celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011, to acknowledge the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future on the 100th anniversary of the worldwide solemnization of the spiritual and pragmatic attributes of women.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Rochelle Spector, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Carl Stokes, Belinda Conaway, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/7/2011	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
3/7/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
3/7/2011	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Equal Access to Education, Training, and Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work For Women - A Baltimore City Celebration of International Women’s Day 2011

FOR the purpose of joining the global celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2011, to acknowledge the economic, political, and social achievements of women past, present, and future on the 100th anniversary of the worldwide solemnization of the spiritual and pragmatic attributes of women.
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The first International Women’s Day events were run in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland in 1911, and were attended by over one million people. One hundred years later, International Women’s Day (IWD) has become a global mainstream phenomena celebrated across many countries and is an official holiday in approximately 25 countries, including Afghanistan, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zambia.

March 8 will be an occasion for global women’s activity. There will be a mass march across London’s Millennium Bridge for charity. A major international business women’s conference will be hosted in Sydney, Australia. Schools and governments around the world are participating in the day; trade unions and charities are campaigning, and global corporations are hosting conferences and distributing extensive resource material.

Although IWD ac...