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Women's Day 2011

I had some emails that made me aware of International Women's Day, on Tuesday 8 March 2011, and intended to be celebrated everywhere. This is the 100th anniversary of the event. Because it seems increasingly important to have the relatively compassionate and nurturing capacities of women take a larger role in what happens on this planet, I decided to identify the day as a GCP event.

International Women's Day (8 March) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday. It has its beginnings in the early 20th century when Suffragettes campaigned for women's right to vote. The word 'Suffragette' is derived from the word "suffrage" meaning the right to vote. International Women's Day honours the work of the Suffragettes, celebrates women's success, and reminds of inequities still to be redressed. The first International Women's Day event was run in 1911. 2011 is the Global Centenary Year. It is time to reinvent opportunity for working women and all women.

The GCP event was set for the 24 hour day, since it is specifically intended to be celebrated "everywhere". The result is Chisquare = 86264 on 86400 df, for p = 0.628 and Z = -0.326. The graphical trend in the middle of the day, when the Western world is active, is reminiscent of numerous meditation and Earth oriented events.

Women's Day 2011

It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny statistical effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from noise. This means that every "success" might be largely driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect can be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of similar analyses.


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