When the International Women’s Day began 100 years ago, organizers set out to raise awareness about the poor treatment many women around the world were enduring. Since then, efforts to gain equality through the right to vote, education, health care, and business advancement brought huge success. But it’s not enough to applaud rising paychecks and academic degrees and consider the issue settled. Millions of women continue to suffer massive and cruel oppression in the form of forced abortion, unwanted sterilization, and infanticide of female babies. These injustices are so widespread and so harsh, it’s impossible to overlook them. Read more …
March 14, 2011