Women's Day

 8 of March.

I remember it quite well from a primary school in Communist Poland.
Day before the celebrations, our class teacher dictated:
In 1910, at an international conference of socialist women, Klara Zetkin and Eugenia Cotton proposed to celebrate International Women's Day ...

Above Klara Zetkin with Rosa Luxemburg.
By Unknown author - Public Domain, Link

The first Women's Day celebrations took place on February 28, 1909, in New York, on the initiative of the Socialist Party of America, at the request of a certain Teresa Malkiel - KLIK.

Socialist Party of America - I sighed appreciatively and clicked to find out something about Mrs. Teresa.
"Ukrainian born American activist".

Ukraine in 1910?
Actually Teresa Malkiel was born in a Polish part of Ukraine, which at the time of her birth was administered by Austria.
Somehow I found these connection quite significant.

No wonder I got quite excited when I learned that my local library organized a Women's Day Trivia Night.
I joined and connected to zoom.

The evening was hosted by Mrs. Tracy Bartram, apparently a very popular presenter of radio programs, comedian, singer.

Her behavior confirmed that she was a professional comedian, because before she said something, she was already laughing, when she started talking, she was choking with laughter every now and then, and when she finished speaking, she laughed until the last person in the audience stopped laughing.

Very quickly she moved to the actual women's issues.
Firstly, memories of sufferings women had to endure while using diafragm as anticonception.
Then the double edge of menopause.

At this time I got a hint - men-o-pause .
As I was the only men connected to the session I paused - switched off