International Women's Day 2019

Happy #InternationalWomensDay Let's celebrate the fabulous achievements of women, while collectively we forge a more gender-balanced world for #IWD2019 and beyond #BalanceforBetter https://t.co/SlKO1TeaTZ pic.twitter.com/w1P4OdUn3l

— Women's Day (@womensday) March 8, 2019

Happy International Women's Day

The International Women's Day 2019 campaign theme of #BalanceforBetter is a call-to-action for driving gender balance across the world. How will you help make a difference?

Right now is a great and important time in history to do everything possible to help forge a more gender-balanced world. Women have come a long way, yet there's still more to be achieved. From grassroots activism to worldwide action, we are entering an exciting period of history where the world expects balance. We notice its absence and celebrate its presence.

As the world celebrates International Women's Day, activity is underway celebrating women's achievements and tenaciously challenging bias.

There are places in the world where women suffer discrimination and are truly oppressed.

Some girls never attend school and never receive an education.

Women face severe employment restrictions, making a career nearly impossible.

In some countries, women aren't allowed to drive. They aren't allowed to appear in public without coverings on their heads and sometimes their faces.

There are significant gender inequities in other places around the world that I find troubling. Living under those conditions is unimaginable.

In the United States, women don't suffer such oppression.

Frankly, in my corner of the world, having a day to celebrate women seems a little goofy.

Maybe 50 or 75 years ago it would have made a bit more sense, but not now, not here.

The Me Too movement is very odd, too. Sexual assault and harassment didn't just become unacceptable. It's not as if women just recently decided to speak out against inappropriate behavior. I don't know why people in Hollywood and the entertainment industry are so backward but they certainly haven't kept pace with the rest of society.

It seems that some women enjoy portraying themselves as struggling for equality even though those challenges were conquered generations ago.

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Why does this make me laugh?

Vladimir Putin congratulated the women of Russia on International Women's Day https://t.co/MlslbsbTuo pic.twitter.com/mRGngBblny

— President of Russia (@KremlinRussia_E) March 8, 2019