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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.
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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