Women’s Media Center

March 7, 2011

By Marianne Schnall

For the centenary of International Women’s Day this week, Marianne Schnall samples assessments from a wide range of women on where we stand around the world.

Stories related to women and girls globally generally tend to get so little mainstream coverage in the media that it’s too easy to remain blissfully unaware of their status. March 8, International Women’s Day, lets the world stop and consider women’s condition past and present—both to celebrate the economic, political and social strides women have certainly made globally, but also to remind us of the enormous inequities that remain to be addressed. Around the world, girls and women continue to lack economic opportunity and adequate health care and education. They are pushed into early marriage and suffer sexual violence and many forms of oppression and discrimination.