International Women's Day

Started by the Suffragettes in the early 1900's, the first International Women's Day was celebrated in 1911.  International Women's Day belongs to all communities everywhere - governments, companies, charities, educational institutions, networks, associations, the media and more.  Everyone can play a successful part in pressing for gender parity.  Collective action and shared responsibility for driving is what makes International Women's Day successful.  Gloria Steinem, journalist, activist, and world-renowned feminist, once explained, "The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist, nor to any one organization, but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights."
     The following women, in no particular order, are women that I admire greatly:
the seven daughters of Eve:  Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, and Jasmine  (without them, we would not be here...)
Cleopatra
Eleanor of Acquitaine
Joan of Arc
Catherine de Medici
Elizabeth I  Tudor
Pocahantas - Rebecca Rolfe
the Bronte sisters
Coretta Scott King
Sacajawea Charbonneau
Rosa Parks
Marie Curie
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Anne Frank
Maya Angelou
Eleanor Roosevelt
Marjorie Joyner
Clara Barton
Josephine Baker
Jane Austen
Mary McLeod Bethune
Emily Dickinson
Mary Kenner
Maria Tallchief
Florence Nightingale
Shirley Chisolm
Hattie McDaniel
Alice Parker
Ida B. Wells

Push For Parity!!