Speaker 1: And left let left right left left left left.
Speaker 2: Right left, good and march. We're marching for fu.
Speaker 1: Well because it's fun.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we
Speaker 2: discover fascinating facts about the world around us and the
Speaker 2: fun of play learning. Today, the friends are having quite
Speaker 2: a good time marching. Being together and moving as a
Speaker 2: group is fun. But they're about to learn that marching
Speaker 2: sometimes has a different, bigger meaning.
Speaker 3: But what is it?
Speaker 2: Let's find out This march is a fun game. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Billy says, it's not just a game.
Speaker 3: Of course it is. See, we're playing.
Speaker 1: And having fun and being silly and tambourine.
Speaker 2: Play plus fun plus silly plus tambourine equals game. This
Speaker 2: march does seem like a game. But Billy's right, a
Speaker 2: march is not always a game. Darn long ago, more
Speaker 2: than one hundred years ago, a group of women marched
Speaker 2: together in a way that was definitely not a game.
Speaker 2: Maybe they should have tried Galie's tambourine. Yeah, well, these
Speaker 2: women didn't want to play a game. They were marching
Speaker 2: together to express their demands.
Speaker 1: To the hands. Why holding the hands of a friend.
Speaker 3: No, the word is demands.
Speaker 2: It means to ask strong only for what you want
Speaker 2: and say it must happen.
Speaker 1: Demands. What did the marching women demand?
Speaker 3: They wanted to be treated fairly.
Speaker 2: Hell well, at that time, women were not allowed to vote,
Speaker 2: which means they couldn't help to choose leaders or decide
Speaker 2: what rules to have in their communities.
Speaker 1: But that's not there. Women should have been allowed to vote.
Speaker 3: Do yes.
Speaker 2: That was a problem. And they had another problem when
Speaker 2: they went to work. Oh no, they weren't getting the
Speaker 2: right amount of money for all their hard work. Instead,
Speaker 2: they were only given a tiny bit of money, even
Speaker 2: though they had.
Speaker 3: To work all day long.
Speaker 1: But that's not fair.
Speaker 3: You're right, it's not fair, Elliot.
Speaker 2: You so angry, and I think some of the women
Speaker 2: were angry about this too.
Speaker 3: Why didn't they tell somebody? Yeah, well that's the problem. Huh,
Speaker 3: nobody was listening. This makes me so mad. It's like
Speaker 3: they were stuck.
Speaker 1: What could they even do as nobody was listening to them?
Speaker 1: I know what I would do, me too, me three?
Speaker 2: What else besides yelling could they do when nobody was listening?
Speaker 3: Lingo, kids, listeners, do you have any ideas.
Speaker 2: They could Marsh Yep, that's exactly why they had to
Speaker 2: march because nobody was listening.
Speaker 1: Instead of using their voices, they used hmmm, their feet.
Speaker 3: They did, and it was a brave thing to do.
Speaker 1: Did their march worth well?
Speaker 2: It took a long time, but yes, Eventually they did
Speaker 2: get the right to vote.
Speaker 3: Yay, and work got better too, next gig.
Speaker 2: Yes, marching was a way for the women to get
Speaker 2: their voices heard, even when others didn't really want to listen.
Speaker 1: I think I would like to check out a march
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: You might be happy to learn that something like that
Speaker 2: march still goes on today.
Speaker 3: It does, Yes, it changed a.
Speaker 2: Bit, Yes, Billy, it's called International Women's Day.
Speaker 3: International Women's Day. That's right.
Speaker 2: International Women's Day is a holiday in some places. Ooh,
Speaker 2: and on this day people give women flowers, learn about their.
Speaker 3: Accomplishments, or just say thank you.
Speaker 2: It's also a time to continue fighting for women's rights.
Speaker 1: Flowers, thank yous, and fighting. There's a lot of different
Speaker 1: ways to so great International Women's Day.
Speaker 2: Well, I know how I'm going to celebrate.
Speaker 3: Marsh ready too much.
Speaker 1: My feet are already tapping.
Speaker 2: I have my tambourine left left left right left left
Speaker 2: left left.
Speaker 1: Right left.
Speaker 2: Lingo kids listeners, Thank you for coming together to talk
Speaker 2: about International Women's Day, which is on March eighth and
Speaker 2: Marching we learned that long ago women march to demand
Speaker 2: their rights and get treated fairly.
Speaker 3: On International Women's Day, people all over the world take
Speaker 3: time to celebrate women and to continue demanding their rights.
Speaker 2: Do you know any women who have done something wonderful
Speaker 2: supporting actual