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International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.
But celebrating International Women’s Day is always such a bittersweet experience for me – a reminder, year after year, that after accomplishing so much during the first three quarters of the 20th century, progress seems to have stalled during the past 30 years.
Maybe it’s because we’re now fighting for subtler rights – not for the right to vote or for the right to own property but for rights such as the right to be free of gender-based violence, for the right to be treated equally in the workplace, and for the right to be treated with respect – not as some inferior subspecies.
Continued: International Women's Day 2010
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Vered DeLeeuw
