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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

International Women's Day!


Every year on March 8, we celebrate International Women's Day. The theme for this year is "Pledge for Parity." Parity means being in a state of equality, in status and pay. IWD reports that "the World Economic Forum predicted in 2014 that it would take until 2095 to achieve global gender parity. Then one year later in 2015, they estimated that a slowdown in the already glacial pace of progress meant the gender gap wouldn't close entirely until 2133."

To help support the "Pledge for Parity, visit International Women's Day here to take your own #pledgeforparity. 

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