Wishing all the women in this world a " HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY !! " ( Archived) (16)

Wishing all the women in this world a " HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY !! "
Buy something for your girl. They deserve a special gift on this special day.
Give women the respect they deserve:)

Respect would be special enough. We are pretty awesome beings. Happy International Women's Day to all the women in the world...because we are strong...we are sisters.

Respect would be special enough. We are pretty awesome beings. Happy International Women's Day to all the women in the world...because we are strong...we are sisters.

Thank you. I know this is getting a bit too serious, but it would be great not to have a need for such a day to remind us that we still have a long way to go.

New data to be released this Women’s Day in a free interactive atlas highlight the educational challenges women face worldwide, but especially in rural communities. In Burkina Faso, for example, only about 22% of rural girls attend primary school compared to 72% of urban girls or 82% of urban boys. And in Morocco, although in recent years the gender gap has been closing, rural women still lag behind rural men with just over half (55%) of rural males and only a little over a third of rural women (37%) receiving at least 5 years of education.

Rural women and girls face some of the highest rates of educational poverty in the world. UNESCO estimates that about 80 percent of the 67 million children out of school live in rural areas, the majority of whom are girls. Young girls from poor rural households are the least likely of any social group to be in school or to ever gain access to education. Illiteracy rates in rural areas are almost twice as high as in urban areas, and higher still among women. This holds back progress towards development targets and prevents rural economic growth. Improving education for women and girls in rural areas is a central issue both for achieving gender equality and for poverty eradication.