Tips to Celebrate International Women's Day 2020

Posted by Ritika Ahuja on March 5th, 2020

Every year 8th of March is celebrated as International Women's Day. The day is also known as United Nations (UN) Day for Women's Rights and International Peace. On this day each woman is honored for her contribution to the society and organization. Each woman across the country deserves to be celebrated for what she is and what she has done so far.

Though there should not be a single day designated to celebrate womanhood, she should be acknowledged every day for the work she is doing. Nevertheless, this women's day let's take a moment and thanks to women in our life, be it our colleague, mother, daughter, or friend for being who they are.

1. The Classic Thank you Note with a Flower

What could best then thanking each women around you, for her contribution, and nothing could be best than a classic thank you card. Though, in this digital era, we have an array of options to thanks women in your life. But the thank-you note has its charm. It gives a personal touch and also, it would be a deliberate effort from you to thank women around. This is one of the best tips for celebrating international women's day in the office and at home. You can curate a nice card for her and add some kind words to it to make her feel special. If you want you can give this Thank you note along a flower or a chocolate to your colleagues.

2. Create a Pledge Wall

Creating an IWD 2020 pledge wall is a perfect idea to celebrate this women's day at home or in office.  In the office, you can engage your employees and ask them to create a wall that would have their thoughts on women's day and what other steps the organization must take to acknowledge every woman employee.

This could be a day activity or can be implemented a week and month. This will let employees come up with innovative ideas that can help their female colleagues grow.

 To make it more interesting or relevant for social media, you can add creative hashtags. One of the major problems that every organization or profession should think upon is gender equality. Ask your employees to prepare a chit or a card that has their thoughts with their name and stick to the wall.  By the end of the week or day, one person can read out all the chits and implement them if they are worth it. Also, once the activity is completed, employees can stick the chits to their desks. It would act as a reminder to them.

3. Plan a Reward and Recognition Event

This is one of the ideal ways to mark international women's day at the office. At home, you can probably gather your family mates and ask them to honor each lady and girl for her immense contribution.

 At the workplace, it could be an activity that you can lead to honor every female worker. To make it interesting, you can prepare classy certificates that represent women and their performances. Each female employee deserves to be recognized differently so you can come up with different titles for each employee. For example, one could Miss or Mrs. Hardworking or The Fashionista of the office, etc. This will make her special and unique. You can team up the certificate with funky goodies like t-shirt, water bottle, mugs that have women's day related quotes. R&R event would also increase employee engagement and encourage high performance.

4. Gift her Something Special

In case you are celebrating International women's day at home, you can make it little unique by gifting a beautiful gift along with the Thank you note. There would be hardly any woman who does not like gifts. You can gift her anything from clothes to jewelry or accessory to a smartphone. She would love to have the gift from you and will appreciate the fact that you have taken some time to gift her something special. In case you are planning her to gift jewelry, you can consider an online jewelry shop called Candere. It has a wide range of jewels that too certified jewelry at a reasonable price. On top of it, you can make the use of Candere coupon code to gain a maximum discount on your shopping. 

5. Make her Feel Special for the Entire Day

This tip might sound cliché, but it would work. Besides thanking the women in your life, spend quality time with them. Know them in detail. Your small gestures would make them feel special, for example, you can prepare a bed tea and her favorite breakfast or take her out for dinner.

Conclusion:

The 8th of March is marked as international women's day. The day is an ode to all the women around who have been working so hard to make us happy.