So having taken up the women's cause, the shoe companies remain reticent about celebrating women for who they are.

From small beginnings, this idea has grown to become a widely recognised way of celebrating women around the world.

The film explains a new Jewish ritual designed to celebrate women on their 60th birthday.

Labor Day celebrates the nation's working men and women.

The sports personality awards present a brilliant opportunity to celebrate our nation's elite sportsmen and women.

"I always wanted to do a book that would celebrate women," Afanador told me recently.

Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music.

"And I really wanted to celebrate other women having babies."

The holiday did not celebrate individual women, but an idealized standard of motherhood.

"We're doing this in a way that celebrates, doesn't denigrate, women," he says.