Happy International Women’s Day, all!
March 8 is International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a global day to recognize and celebrate women’s and girls’ social, economic, cultural, and political achievements. It’s also a time to highlight the progress made in advancing women’s rights and the ongoing efforts needed to ensure their full participation in all aspects of society.
Yes, there are still a lot of challenges for women around the world, but we haven’t been standing still. Mr Man flipped on the TV this morning and landed on a channel playing 80s movies. There’s nothing like seeing women being portrayed as grabbable arm candy in leg warmers (not to mention casual racial slurs and stereotypes) to remind you how far society has come.
Now, Mr Man also started a recent video game that seemed to have been written by an AI trained on misogynistic curse-laden troll chum, so there’s that. And yet!
40 Basic Rights Women Did Not Have Until The 1970s
Although you might be familiar with the fact that women had to fight for their rights, you probably don’t realize how many basic things females were denied.
Read it and weep… with joy, because at least we’re not dealing with these particular issues anymore.
Change also benefits men as well as women. Because no one likes to be pigeonholed, amirite?
Is there still more to do? Absolutely. Equal pay for equal work is still a work in progress, some rights are being reversed, and Barbie was a hit for a reason.
As we continue through Women’s History Month, I’ll leave you with this article on inspiring women:
Portraits of women who ‘shine a light’: from an ‘analog’ astronaut to a watermelon farmer
So write your own story, draw your own path, make your mark. Because bright lights make the whole world shine.
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J.R. Johnson 
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