International Women's Day
March 8th was the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, an international observance designed to promote advances in women’s rights. On the first International Women’s Day, women in most countries around the world, including the United States, could not vote and employers often refused to hire someone just because she was a woman. The cause of women’s rights has come a long way since 1911, but recent setbacks threaten some of those gains. Budget hawks, in the name of deficit reduction, have proposed eliminating Title X funding for U.S. family planning assistance and, at the same time, slashing U.S. support for international family planning and reproductive health services. And family planning is not the only budget target. A wide variety of programs aimed at protecting the health of women and children could end up taking over-sized hits. When it comes to deficit reduction, apparently the new mantra is “Women and children, first.”
http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2011/03/08/international-womens-day-hold-the-champagne/
http://blog.populationinstitute.org/2011/03/08/the-war-on-women/
