Women's festivals

, also called '''Doll's Day or Girls' Day''', is an annual festival in Japan (but not a national holiday), celebrated on 3March of each year. Platforms covered with a red carpet material are used to display a set of representing the emperor, empress, attendants, and musicians in traditional court dress of the Heian period.

Indo-Nepali festival celebrated by Hindu women

Jitiya (also known as Jiutiya or Jivitputrika) is a three-day-long ancient Hindu festival celebrated from the seventh to ninth lunar day of Krishna-Paksha in Ashvin month. It is celebrated in Nepal and the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. Mothers fast for the well-being of their kids. It is celebrated for eight days in Jharkhand from the first moon day to the eighth moon day in the first half of the Ashvin month.

Indian ceremony

festival of Manipur

Political and cultural movement dedicated to promoting women in music and challenging sexism in the music community.

hindu holy ritual

Madhushravani (Maithili: मधुश्रावणी) is a Hindu festival celebrated in the Mithila region by newly married Maithil women. It is famous for popular faith and longevity of husbands and happy married life in Maithil Brahmins women. It is believed that Goddess Parvati observed the Madhushravani Puja's fast first and continued to have Lord Shiva as her husband in all her births. According to legend, this festival is like a penance.

Yamurikuma is a female spirit who represents the ancestral women of the indigenous Wauja people. The Wauja people are located at South America, in the Upper Xingu River, Brazil. Wauja people have celebrated Yamurikuma in rituals, ceremonies, and traditions for centuries. Shamans in Xingu villages call women specifically to perform sing and song rituals for the female spirit Yamurikuma and the deceased or terminally ill Xingu people. It is one of the only exceptions made for the women in these communities to lead a ritual. Yamurikuma is also celebrated in a festival named after the spirit herse