DCA: Happy 100th Women's Day!

DCA celebrates
100th Woman's Day With the UN


March 8, 2011 \| News covering the UN and the world

The agenda to secure gender equality and women's rights is a global agenda, a challenge for every country, rich and poor, north and south."

Michelle Bachelet, executive director of UN Women. Click here for the full story.

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100 Years of Women making change

International Women's Day at 100

Despite gains in gender equality over the past century, such parity remains far-off for many women because of various forms of discrimination, said Michelle Bachelet, the head of UN Women. Not only do women continue to earn less than men for doing the same work, she said, but they have less access to land ownership and, as girls, are less likely to go to school. The Washington Post/The Associated Press (3/8)