Centennial of Women's Day
A century ago, Clara Zetkin of Germany proposed an international day for women of the world to press for their right to full citizenship.
Today, generations of hard work have paid off. In many countries, women hold top government and legislative posts, manage multinational businesses, and stand side by side with men on the podium when laurels for scientific and technological achievement are awarded.
Still, we cannot take what we have achieved for granted. Around the world, appalling examples of the mistreatment of women are reported daily. Girls in many countries are still barred from receiving an education. Many young women still toil in sweatshops like those that claimed the lives of women workers in New York in 1911 and in China in the 1980s and 1990s.
