International Women's Day 2018

Today is International Women's Day.

This year's "campaign theme": #PressforProgress.

With the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over 200 years away - there has never been a more important time to keep motivated and #PressforProgress. And with global activism for women's equality fuelled by movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp and more - there is a strong global momentum striving for gender parity.

And while we know that gender parity won't happen overnight, the good news is that across the world women are making positive gains day by day. Plus, there's indeed a very strong and growing global movement of advocacy, activism and support.

So we can't be complacent. Now, more than ever, there's a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity. A strong call to #PressforProgress. A strong call to motivate and unite friends, colleagues and whole communities to think, act and be gender inclusive.

International Women's Day is not country, group or organisation specific. The day belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. So together, let's all be tenacious in accelerating gender parity. Collectively, let's all Press for Progress.

A Lynwood McDonald's was the only one in the nation chosen to have its sign flipped upside down in honor of International Women's Day. https://t.co/vvjZVOC8Pq

— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) March 8, 2018

Do women get any free stuff with this celebration? Is McDonald's offering all women a free Big Mac or something?

I don't care about the upside down arches.

In case you were wondering, International Men's Day is November 19.