Purple is the colour of International Women's Day, which was established more than a century ago following a march in New York City, women demanding improved working conditions and voting rights. The day's current incarnation is designed to honour women's social, economic, and political achievements and to advocate for gender equality.
There are numerous ways to participate in International Women's Day on March 8th each year, and one of the simplest is to wear purple dresses alongside thousands of other women worldwide. What is the significance of wearing purple on International Women's Day? It is not only because it is a lovely shade (although it definitely is).
International Women's Day (IWD) is being commemorated with the colour purple, which is said to symbolize "visionary thinking." According to the organizers of IWD, purple is the colour of the future, and as it happens, the colour has always reflected the type of gender equality for which we continue to struggle. "Historically, purple has been connected with efforts to establish gender equality," according to the IWD organization.
"It was first used in this context, alongside green and white, as the colours of the Women's Social and Political Union, the group that led the early twentieth-century women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom." According to the IWD organization.
Not to add that purple was the colour associated with the Women's Liberation Movement. If there was ever a colour that adequately represented the strides women are making toward a more equitable society, this appears to be it. Therefore, on International Women's Day, wear purple; it's the simplest way to demonstrate your support!
We wish you a happy Inauguration Day! To commemorate this momentous — and historic — occasion, three of the country's most powerful women chose to wear the same, highly symbolic colour: purple.
Therefore, why is purple so symbolic? For one thing, it symbolizes bipartisanship: the literal combination of red and blue for the Republican and Democratic parties. This might be viewed as a representation of Harris's perspective as she begins this new chapter, and possibly her wish to bring both sides of the aisle together.
Second, it is a suffragette movement colour. "Purple is the colour of dedication, purposefulness, and unwavering commitment to a cause. White, the colour of purity, represents the purity of our purpose; and gold, the colour of light and life, serves as the unwavering torch that guides our purpose "according to a paragraph in a National Woman's Party bulletin in the United States. Harris wore white in November when she delivered her victory speech following the election's official call for Biden-Harris, and it seems fitting that she chose another suffragette colour for this occasion.
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