Today is International Women's Day, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday.
While the U.S. may not suffer the severe indignities to women as in other countries, we still do not have equality in pay. I remember my mother showing me a pay range listing she had kept when she first went in to teaching, along with my father. They had a pay scale for Men then a lower one for Women - plain as day and labeled as such. While there are no more such blatant pay scales, the underlying scale of lower pay for women versus men is still in effect.
No wonder I took a day off from work today - to celebrate! Here's to a weekend filled with blue skies and sunshine!!
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem
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