Women-and-Change

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Dear Women Friends Worldwide: I hope you’re having a wonderful day pressing ahead with your activities and activism. This year’s campaign theme is “Press for Progress” and it’s just fantastic to be pressing ahead with gender parity and other issues that affect all women world-wide. In most countries, in areas like education and health, we are on par with men. However, in the world of work women continue to be underemployed and work for lower wages than a man doing the same job. We all know that economic equality is worth fighting for not only for ourselves but for our families and the economy of our countries as well. ...

Another International Women’s Day is upon us and I see signs all around me that women are becoming bolder these days about what they are willing to put up with - e.g. the big January 21st Women’s March in Washington and cities around the world to protest Donald Trump’s presidency. As The Globe and Mail’s Ian Brown writes, “the battle of the hats between red ‘Make America Great Again’ ball-caps, worn by Trump’s supporters, and the knitted pink so-called ‘pussyhats’ worn by protesters at women’s marches, is one of the most telling and unexpected sideshows to have emerged in the bitter political contest between Trump and women all over the world.” Don’t be fooled by those pink “pussyhats.” ...