To: The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Make International women’s Day a public holiday in the UK

I call upon The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to make International women’s Day a public holiday.

International Women's Day is a chance to celebrate, recognise and remember women and the accomplishments they have made to society and what better way than with a public holiday.

Why is this important?

In 2019 Berlin’s parliament approved a bill to make international women’s day, observed annually on the 8th of March, a public holiday. If the U.K. would join suit, it would be following 27 other countries around the world. The U.K. is behind the rest of Europe on the number of public holidays it has. The EU average is 12.8 days, which is almost 5 days more than UK workers get, so this seems like the ideal opportunity to add another one to the calendar.

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Updates

2022-03-09 17:46:29 +0000

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