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International Women’s Day 2012: cartoons exploring women’s place in society...
To mark International Women’s Day, we select a series of cartoons depicting women’s rights and empowerment – or lack of – from the Cartoon Movement, a global collaborative platform for editorial...
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International Women’s Day in tweets
The novelist Linda Grant marked the importance of International Women’s Day, noting how when she was applying for a store credit card in 1979, aged 28, the form had had to be signed by her husband or...
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Women of achievement – Who are your role models?
Who are your role models? March is the month of International Women. It’s global. To chose a role model close to home, Mary Robinson, late President of Ireland, UN high commissioner for human rights...
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Break the Chain – One Billion Rising – V Day!
Did you know that at this exact moment millions of women all around the world are joining together to stop violence against women. Check out this amazing Anthem called ‘Break the Chain’. For more...
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Inspirational Woman : Dr Helen Pankhurst | An International Womens Day Special
You may recall seeing during the Olympic Opening Ceremony’s Danny Boyles’ Green and Pleasant Land and noticing a focus on the Women’s suffragette movement. Not only were there 50 women replaying the...
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RED RICKSHAW REVOLUTION!
Join the Red Rickshaw Revolution to celebrate ordinary women doing extraordinary things across India. Help us raise funds to empower many more. From the 9th – 18th March a Vodafone India Foundation...
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International Women’s Day: school is ‘the new front line of feminism’
Between studying for her GCSEs and practising the viola, Lili Evans has made some “feminist bracelets” to celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday. Before leaving for school she will email and...
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A celebration of women not being seen as the problem
Photograph: copyright Cavendish Laboratory Today is International Women’s Day, 101 years old this year. This celebrates women in all walks of life and should remind us both of the many women from...
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International Women’s Day: political rights around the world mapped
How have women’s political rights changed around the globe to get to this International Women’s Day? This interactive map by Lustlab’s Lizzie Malcolm in Amsterdam shows the long history of the fight...
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International Women’s Day: speak out on domestic violence, says Theresa May
Theresa May has urged people to speak out against abuse of women and girls in a video released to coincide with International Women’s Day. The home secretary’s comments come as figures from the...
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International Women’s Day: Indians demand better rights – video
International Women’s Day – picture of the day On this day in 1917, a series of rallies held for Women’s Day in Petrograd, now St Petersburg, gradually turned into a large political protest...
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International women’s day: a voice from the UK
When my daughter was born, in Zimbabwe, one of the nurses said to the women at the clinic, “some of you just come here to look at our shoes!” It was such a derogatory remark it still haunts me today....
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Reading this on a mobile? Click here to view Today, on International Women’s Day 2013, somewhere in a London Underground tube carriage on the Northern line, one woman will take the radical step of...
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What IWD means to me: Justine Lutterodt
Justine Lutterodt is Director of the Centre for Synchronous Leadership, an organisation established to support the evolution of the corporate sector. As a strategy consultant and coach at the Centre...
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What IWD means to me: Kay White
Well, it says it all. The combination of a global celebration and a global spotlight on women, for women and all about women – it’s a day to be unashamedly feminine and to shine a light on all that we...
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Celebrating IWD with one of the original Women’s networks – The history of...
The story of Soroptimism began almost 93 years ago. The First World War had wrought many changes to lives of women and by necessity many were required to hold key jobs. By 1920 they had proved that...
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Empowering Women Initiative
Jess created a female empowerment video from her bedroom which has had over 137k hits on YouTube and is being shown in high schools in the UK, female prisons in the US and at several Female Network...
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What does International Womens Day mean to me
So what does International Women’s Day mean to me?? Well it is a celebration of the range of women’s roles in the world: mother, daughter, sister, lover, and friend. But also the opportunity for the...
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Wishing you all a Happy International Womens Day
Here at WeAreTheCity we would like to wish you all a Happy International Womens Day! In whatever way you are celebrating today and the rest of next week we hope that you have fun, inspiration and...
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The Age of the Feminine
Saturday saw a global celebration of ‘International Women’s Day‘. Social media feeds were jammed with reference to the achievements of amazing women, from household names to the women we work and live...
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