Women’s Days

Wednesday 6 December - National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada

Friday 8 December - Mother's Day in Panama (Día de la Madre); Hari-Kuyō (Kansai region, Japan); Lady of Camarin Day in Guam

Sunday 10 December - Namibian Women's Day

Monday 11 December - Establishment of Kurdish Women’s Union (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Friday 22 December - Mother's Day in Indonesia

Monday 1 January - Global Family Day (is grew out of the UN Millennium Day celebration, which included the distribution of the 1996 children's book One Day at a Time)

Saturday 6 January - Little Christmas in Ireland

Monday 8 January - Women's Day in Greece: Gynecocracy

Wednesday 10 January - Migrant Women's Day in Argentina

Friday 12 January - World Daughter's Day (an international initiative that arose from the National Daughter Day in India)

Friday 19 January - Spouse's Day in Russia

Sunday 21 January - Grandmother's Day in Poland

Thursday 25 January - Honduras National Women's Day

Wednesday 7 February - Grandchildren's Day in Ontario, Canada

Friday 9 February - Family Day in Israel (earlier Mother's Day)

Sunday 11 February - Mother's Day in Norway (Second Sunday of February); International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Monday 12 February - National African American Parent Involvement Day (second monday of february - NAAPID is a day for all parents to come to their child's school, see what their day is like and to support their child's educational future)

Tuesday 13 February - National Women's Day in India

Wednesday 14 February - V-Day (movement, International)

Thursday 15 February - Susan B. Anthony Day

Sunday 18 February - Wife's Day or Konudagur in Iceland (Celebrated on Sunday from 18 to 24 February)

Thursday 22 February - Mother's Day in India; Birthday of Scouting and Guiding founder Robert Baden-Powell and Olave Baden-Powell (and its related observance: - Founder's Day or "B.-P. day" - World Organization of the Scout Movement); World Thinking Day (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)

Saturday 24 February - Women's Day in Paraguay (Día de la Mujer Paraguaya)

Friday 1 March - Women’s History Month

Sunday 3 March - Girls Day or Hinamatsuri in Japan (Momo-no Sekku); Grandmother's Day in France (La fête des grands-mères is celebrated on the first Sunday in March); Georgia Mother's Day

Monday 4 March - Mini-skirts Day (the creator of mini-skirts is considered to be Englishwoman Mary Coint - a British designer and fashion designer who introduced her in 1965. Even micro-skirts have appeared since the mid-1960s. The whole difference is how to wear them)

Friday 8 March - Mother's Day in Albania (also Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Kosovo, Laos, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan); International Women's Collaboration Brew Day; Women’s Working Day; International Women’s Day

Sunday 10 March - National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States); Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day (United Kingdom, Western Christianity; celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent: Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Nigeria); International Women Judges' Day

Tuesday 12 March - Girl Scout Birthday

Thursday 14 March - White Day in Japan (also South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China on March 14, one month after Valentine's Day - ホワイトデ)

Saturday 16 March - National Curl Crush Day in USA (since 2021)

Tuesday 19 March - Minna Canth's Birthday in Finland (Finnish writer, playwright, journalist, author of short stories, novels and plays, the first famous woman writer in Finland. Born March 19, 1844. Since 2007, Gender Equality Day has been celebrated in her honor)

Thursday 21 March - Mother's Day in most of the Arab world (Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Lebanon, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen); International Colour Day (The adoption of an international day of colour was proposed in 2008 by the Portuguese Color Association, whose president, Maria Joao Durao, presented the idea to the International Colour Association. The proposal was agreed in 2009 among the members of this society, which is composed of national associations and members representing more than 30 countries)

Monday 25 March - Mother's Day in Slovenia

Sunday 31 March - International Cleavage Day

Sunday 7 April - Motherhood and Beauty Day in Armenia; Women's Day in Mozambique

Wednesday 17 April - Women's Day in Gabon (Women's Rights Day)

Sunday 21 April - Kartini Day in Indonesia

Wednesday 24 April - Denim Day

Thursday 25 April - Red Hat Society Day (The Red Hat Society [RHS] is an international social organization that was founded in 1998 in the United States for women age 50 and beyond, but now open to women of all ages. There are over 20,000 chapters in the United States and over 30 other countries); Wiener Töchtertag or Daughter's Day in Austria (an annual event where girls can broaden their horizons in choosing a career. The initiative of a woman adviser, Catherine Gaal, in cooperation with the Vienna Economic Chamber and the Directorate of Education in Vienna); International Girls in ICT Day (aims to encourage and empower girls and young women to consider studies and car eers in the growing field of Information and communications technology)

Friday 26 April - Töchter-Tag or Daughter's Day in Hamburg, Germany (The Youth Education Association became the initiator in Hamburg. The idea is to introduce girls to technical professions)

Saturday 27 April - Emma ’Grandma’ Gatewood Day in Ohio

Wednesday 1 May - Therapeutic Massage Awareness Day (since 2014)

Sunday 5 May - Mother's Day in Hong Kong (also Hungary, Lithuania, Mozambique, Portugal, Spain, Romania; celebrated on the first Sunday in May); Senior Citizens Day in Palau

Friday 10 May - Mother's Day in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico

Sunday 12 May - Mother's Day in Kenya (celebrated on the second Sunday in May); Mother’s Day (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bonaire, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Gabon, Gambia, Greenland, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Latvia, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Macau, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Singapore, Sint Maarten, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe); Mother’s Day

Monday 13 May - Mother's Day in Botswana; Mother’s Day in Tokelau (on the Monday after the second Sunday of every May)

Wednesday 15 May - Mother's Day in Paraguay; Nylon Stockings Day; International Day of Families

Sunday 19 May - Mother's Day in Kyrgyzstan (celebrated on the third Sunday in May); Wife Day or Day of the myrrh-bearing women (Orthodox celebrate on the second Sunday after Easter)

Sunday 26 May - Mother's Day in Poland; National Mother's Day in the Dominica; Mother's Day in France (also Algeria, Dominican Republic. First Sunday of June, if Pentecost occurs on this day, Haiti, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia; celebrated on the last Sunday in May); Mother's Day in Benin (It is celebrated on the last Sunday of May, if the date coincides with the date of Pentecost, then it is transferred to the first Sunday of June)

Monday 27 May - Mother's Day in Bolivia (Día de la Madre)

Tuesday 28 May - International Day of Women's Health; Menstrual Hygiene Day (It was initiated by the German-based NGO WASH United in 2014 and aims to benefit women and girls worldwide. Menstrual Hygiene Day has received the support of over 270 global partners who are committed to making MHM a priority worldwide.); International Day of Action for Women's Health

Wednesday 29 May - Day of Honoring Elders in Venezuela (as “Parents' Day” or “Grandparents Day”); National Elderly Day in Indonesia

Thursday 30 May - Mother's Day in Nicaragua

Saturday 1 June - Mother and Child Day in Mongolia; Global Day of Parents

Tuesday 4 June - Grandparents and Great-Grandparents Day in Netherlands (Opa en Oma Dag has been celebrated since 2004)

Friday 7 June - National Day of the Rights of Birth and Respected Childbirth in Venezuela

Wednesday 19 June - Honor Elders Day in Uruguay (Día del Abuelo similar to Grandparents Day)

Sunday 23 June - International Women in Engineering Day (National Women in Engineering Day was launched for the first time in the UK on 23 June 2014 by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. Since that launch in 2014 the day has grown enormously over the subsequent years to the point where it received UNESCO patronage in 2016. In 2017, National Women in Engineering Day became international for the first time due to the interest and enthusiasm developed by the international audience and participants in the previous years)

Thursday 27 June - Helen Keller Day

Sunday 30 June - Grandchildren's Day in New Jersey, USA (celebrated from 2014 on the last Sunday of June); Obstetrics and Gynecology Day in Peru

Monday 1 July - Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Awareness Week in Ohio

Wednesday 3 July - Women's Day in Myanmar

Sunday 14 July - Everybody Deserves a Massage Week in USA

Tuesday 16 July - Unaine Day in Kiribati (Elderly Women)

Monday 22 July - International Homework Day

Friday 26 July - National Grandparents Day in Argentina; Grandparents Day in Brazil (Dia dos avós); Grandparents Day in Honduras (Date reflects the feast date of the Saints Anne and Joachim the grandparents of Jesus Christ); Grandparents Day in Portugal (Portuguese: Dia dos avós); Grandparents Day in Spain (or Día de los abuelos y las abuelas. Date reflects the feast date of the Saints Anne and Joachim the grandparents of Jesus Christ)

Sunday 28 July - Parents’ Day

Wednesday 31 July - Africa’s Women’s Day; National Orgasm Day

Thursday 1 August - Thai Women's Day; Ohio Military Family Month

Friday 2 August - US National Boob Day

Sunday 4 August - Matica slovenská Day in Slovakia; Sisters Day (Celebrated on the first Sunday of August)

Monday 5 August - Underwear Day

Thursday 8 August - International Female Orgasm Day

Friday 9 August - National Women's Day in South Africa; International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia

Monday 12 August - HM the Queen's Birthday and National Mother's Day in Thailand

Tuesday 13 August - Women's Day in Tunisia (commemorates the enaction of Tunisian Code of Personal Status in 1956)

Thursday 15 August - Mother's Day in Antwerp and Costa Rica

Wednesday 21 August - National Women Soccer Players Day in Argentina

Sunday 25 August - Grandparents Day in Columbia (Last Sunday in August); Grandparents Day in Taiwan (祖父母節, Zǔfùmǔ Jié - celebrated since 2010 on the last Sunday of August); Go Topless Day (celebrated in the nearest to Sunday 26 August)

Monday 26 August - Day for the Dignity of Older Adults in Bolivia; Women’s Equality Day

Wednesday 28 August - National Grandparents Day in Mexico (Día del Abuelos)

Thursday 5 September - International Indigenous Women's Day

Sunday 8 September - Grandparents Day in Estonia (Vanavanemate Päev is celebrated on the second Sunday in September); Grandparents Day in Canada (Second Sunday of September); Grandparents Day in Phillipines (Second Sunday in September); Grandparents Day in United States (1978); Rozhanitsy in Ukraine (Celebrated for two days, September 8 and 21); National Grandparents’ Day

Tuesday 10 September - International Gynaecological Health Day

Monday 16 September - Parent’s Week in Ohio

Friday 20 September - Pensioner's Day in Argentina

Saturday 21 September - Rozhanitsy Day in Ukraine (Celebrated for two days, September 8 and 21)

Sunday 22 September - National Daughters Day in India (is celebrated on the 4th Sunday of September every year); American Business Women's Day (United States)

Monday 23 September - Day of Political Rights of Women and Day of Public Libraries in Argentina

Saturday 28 September - International Safe Abortion Day (The day was first celebrated as a day of action for decriminalization of abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean in 1990 by the Campaña 28 Septiembre)

Sunday 29 September - Grandparents Day in Ecuador; Gold Star Mothers Day

Tuesday 1 October - Grandparents Day in Costa Rica (Between October 1 and 10)

Wednesday 2 October - National Grandparents Day in Italy (La Festa dei Nonni)

Sunday 6 October - Grandparents Day in South Africa (First Sunday in October); Grandparents Day in United Kingdom (First Sunday in October)

Friday 11 October - Bolivian Woman's Day (Día de la Mujer Boliviana - the birthday of Adela Zamudio, a national pioneer in the fight against discrimination); Girl's Day in El Salvador (Día de la niña); International Day of the Girl Child

Sunday 13 October - No Bra Day (On this day women are encouraged to forgo wearing no bra as a means to encourage breast cancer awareness); Grandmothers' Day in Germany (Second Sunday in October); Grandparents Day in Hong Kong (Celebrated since 1990 on the second Sunday of October); Grandparents Day in Pakistan (Second Sunday in October); National Father–Daughter Day in the United States (on the second Sunday of October)

Monday 14 October - Mother's Day in Belarus

Tuesday 15 October - Mother's Day in Malawi; Grandparents Day in Chile; International Day of Rural Women

Friday 18 October - World Menopause Day (doctors call for women to take action at menopause, to prevent health problems in later life); Women's Global Happiness Day (directed against the epidemic of depression among women. The idea that arose in 2017 belongs to Carin Rockind)

Sunday 20 October - Mother's Day in Argentina (Date for 2024. Celebrated on the third Sunday in October); Vietnamese Women's Day in Vietnam

Sunday 27 October - Australian Grandparents Day (Last Sunday of October); National Mother-in-Law Day in USA (celebrated on the fourth Sunday in October)

Monday 28 October - Grandmothers and Grandfathers Day in Ukraine (Grandparents Day since 2018); Grandchildren and grandparents Day in Russia (a holiday for the whole family)

Thursday 31 October - Girl Scouts Founder's Day (United States)

Sunday 3 November - Mother's Day in East Timor

Thursday 7 November - Men Make Dinner Day (celebrated on the first Thursday of November)

Sunday 10 November - Grandparents Day in South Sudan (Second Sunday in November); Grandmother's Day in Argentina (Día de la Abuela is celebrated on the second Sunday of November)

Monday 11 November - Women's Day in Belgium

Thursday 14 November - Day of the Colombian Woman (Colombia)

Friday 15 November - Shichi-Go-San in Japan

Saturday 16 November - Mother's Day in DPRK

Tuesday 19 November - Women's Entrepreneurship Day

Thursday 21 November - National Parent Involvement Day in USA (third Thursday of November. The day provides a yearly opportunity for schools and families to honor and highlight the powerful contributions parents and caregivers provide at school and home to support student success)

Friday 22 November - Good Husband and Wife Day in Japan; Family Day in Nevada

Sunday 24 November - Grandparents Day in Singapore (Fourth Sunday in November)

Monday 25 November - International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Tuesday 26 November - Metal Rocker Woman Day

Friday 29 November - International Women Human Rights Defenders Day