I completely agree that big events like Boston Fashion Week should take care to work around non-Christian religious holidays. But it's even more frustrating to deal with universities and classes. I did my undergrad at Brandeis, which has a large Jewish population and works off the Jewish calendar, but now I'm in grad school at "regular" university that does not. This spring I had class on Passover and I will have class this week on Rosh Hashanah. I'm sure I could get a pass because of the holiday, but then that would put me a week behind the rest of my class. Then again, is it possible for a secular university to schedule around every religion? Probs not.
I completely agree that big events like Boston Fashion Week should take care to work around non-Christian religious holidays. But it's even more frustrating to deal with universities and classes. I did my undergrad at Brandeis, which has a large Jewish population and works off the Jewish calendar, but now I'm in grad school at "regular" university that does not. This spring I had class on Passover and I will have class this week on Rosh Hashanah. I'm sure I could get a pass because of the holiday, but then that would put me a week behind the rest of my class. Then again, is it possible for a secular university to schedule around every religion? Probs not.