{"id":53232,"date":"2023-03-08T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/08\/we-dont-need-discount-vouchers-for-international-womens-day-we-need-equal-rights"},"modified":"2023-03-08T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T07:00:18","slug":"we-dont-need-discount-vouchers-for-international-womens-day-we-need-equal-rights-nilanjana-bhowmick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53232","title":{"rendered":"We don\u2019t need discount vouchers for International Women\u2019s Day. We need equal rights | Nilanjana Bhowmick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Women\u2019s Day is too often dumbed down into  a mere marketing opportunity that capitalises feminism<\/p>\n<p>Brands wanting to \u201cappreciate\u201d women are offering discounts on clothes and makeup, and celebrities are urging women to use the day to pamper themselves. In India, International Women\u2019s Day has been captured by commerce.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cNo amount of discounts or offers are enough to appreciate women. <\/em><em>However, here\u2019s our little effort in making them feel ultra-special \u2026 up to 50% off all our products until Women\u2019s Day,\u201d <\/em>read yet another of many such messages in my inbox last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2023\/mar\/08\/we-dont-need-discount-vouchers-for-international-womens-day-we-need-equal-rights\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women\u2019s Day is too often dumbed down into  a mere marketing opportunity that capitalises feminismBrands wanting to \u201cappreciate\u201d women are offering discounts on clothes and makeup, and celebrities are urging women to use the day to pamper &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3611,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[237,59,62,1200,79,61,281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","category-global-development","category-india","category-international-womens-day","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3611"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53233,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53232\/revisions\/53233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}