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Celebrating International Women’s Day with inspiring stories from Armenia
March 8 in Armenia: Festivities and realities
Every year on March 8, we celebrate International Women's Day in Armenia. Here, the holiday is celebrated by giving gifts to women, honoring them as wives, mothers, sisters and daughters, and appreciating their femininity. All this continues for a month, because April 7 is a local holiday dedicated to women. On March 8, which is a non-working day, everything is done to make women happy – holiday discounts in stores, flowers while walking in the
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This is a welcome reporting on the status of women in Armenia, specifically beyond Yerevan. I wish it included women from the Syuink region too. Sevan is too close to Yerevan. Regardless of location, the focus/emphasis of this holiday in Armenia is to celebrate beauty and femininity. This creates countless insecurities in young girls and their subjective definition of beauty.
I found this incorrect description in the article: “Her work is a step in this field, as she has restored the costumes and ornaments of Van-Vaspurakan and other regions of Marash… ”
Van-Vaspurakan was not a region of Marash.
Thank you.