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10 Empowering Quotes Said by 10 Empowering Women to Celebrate an Empowering International Women's Day
International Women's Day may have been just over a month ago, but that doesn't mean that women all over the world have to stop celebrating? In today's society, two words seem to stick out the most: respect and equality . International Women's Day on March 8th wasn't devoted to a specific country, organization, or specific group, but it did call all people regardless of background, gender, race, sexuality, etc. to come together hand in hand, advocating for gender equality throughout the world.
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The Pay Gap
Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the year women will have to work in order to earn the same amount of pay that men earned the previous year. Since 1996, this day has served to raise public awareness of the gender pay gap between women and men. In recent years, the disparity has been further analyzed, and there are now Equal Pay Days for women of different ethnicities as well as the day for all women. White women will earn the same amount as men in 2017 did on April 17, 2018.
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Doing Dishes Is the Worst
Every day, they slowly accrete. Plates covered in sauces and crumbs. Bowls with a fine layer of sticky who-knows-what. Forks, knives, and spoons all gummed with bits of this and that. At the end of a long day of work, cooking, cleaning, and, for many, negotiating with small children, a couple has to face the big question: Who is going to do the dishes?
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100 Years Of Women’s History In 27 Magazine Covers
Many of the most historic moments in women’s history have been memorialized on the cover of influential magazines ? and those covers have, in turn, become historic symbols in their own right. Iconic moments in politics ? like Shirley Chisholm’s historic 1968 election as the first black woman to become a member of Congress and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s runs for president in 2008 and 2016 ? have been given their due with on the cover of magazines, and important moments in pop culture have as well.
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When people are asked to draw what a leader looks like, almost everyone draws the same thing — and it's a disturbing picture of how little progress we've made
- When people are asked to draw an effective leader, they almost always draw a man.
- Researchers say this pattern is a prime example of gendered stereotypes about leadership. We tend to associate leadership roles and traits more with men than with women.
- There's some evidence that our definition of leadership is expanding to include more stereotypically "feminine" traits, but change is slow.
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