International Women’s Day, a Chance for Change

We celebrate International Women’s Day March 8. Originally, it was an event to promote equal political rights, including the right to vote, for women. As a Chicagoan I’m proud to say that one of the earliest Women’s Day observances was held in that city in 1908!
Today, although women have the right to vote almost everywhere, health inequalities and disparities between women in the developed and developing worlds – and between men and women in many countries and regions of the world – continue to exist.