We Build Bridges
To Empower Women
Zonta Club of Berkeley / North Bay and Beyond
Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1936
2023 Zonta Rose Day
and International Women's Day
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Happy Zonta Rose Day
It is our special delight to recognize you as someone who has made a difference in the lives of others.
Thank you for supporting, encouraging, mentoring, educating and loving women in your family and community. It all adds up to make the world a better place!
Cheers to all mother's, daughters, sisters and friends
who have made our lives more rewarding and fulfilled.
Think of someone you would like to honor on this special occasion.
One way to honor a special woman in your life is to make a donation in her name to an organization that is or was important to her.
Theme for 2023 International Women's Day
DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality
Growing inequalities around the world are becoming increasingly evident in the context of digital skills and access to technologies, with women being left behind as the result of a digital gender divide.
Recognize and celebrate women and girls who are championing women's equity. Give special recognition women and girls who are working for the advancement of transformative technology and digital education. They help us narrow the digital gender gap and to facilitate the end of online gender-base violence.
From the United Nations:
DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality
Our lives depend on strong technological integration: attending a course, calling loved ones, making a bank transaction, or booking a medical appointment. Everything currently goes through a digital process.
However, 37% of women do not use the internet. 259 million fewer women have access to the Internet than men, even though they account for nearly half the world's population.
If women are unable to access the Internet and do not feel safe online, they are unable to develop the necessary digital skills to engage in digital spaces, which diminishes their opportunities to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related fields By 2050, 75% of jobs will be related to STEM areas. Yet today, women hold just 22% of positions in artificial intelligence, to name just one.
Bringing women into technology results in more creative solutions and has greater potential for innovations that meet women’s needs and promote gender equality. Their lack of inclusion, by contrast, comes with massive costs.
The United Nations Observance of IWD, under the theme “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”, recognizes and celebrates the women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education. The observance will explore the impact of the digital gender gap on widening economic and social inequalities, and it will also spotlight the importance of protecting the rights of women and girls in digital spaces and addressing online and ICT-facilitated gender-based violence.