International Women’s Day Archives

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'Quantum Leap for Gender Equality' Demanded on Eve of International Women's Day

NOVANEWS In terms of jobs and income levels, new UN report warns that "progress in closing gender gaps has stalled, and in some cases is reversing." by: Jessica Corbett A Quantum Leap for Gender Equality: For a Better Future of Work for All was published Thursday by the International Labor Organization (ILO), a United Nations agency. (Image: ILO report) On the eve of International Women's Day, United Nations labor experts decried three decades of failures to close gender gaps in the global workforce and offered a pathway to achieving "a better future of work for women." "With commitment and courageous choices, there can be a quantum leap, so that the future of work does not reinforce the inequalities of the past." —Shauna Olney, GED/ILOAIDS A Quantum Leap for Ge...

Identifying the Foundations of Womens’ Oppression, Charting the Course of Struggles for Liberation

NOVANEWS 8 March – International Women’s Day – was born in the struggles that women factory workers in their thousands waged against bondage a century ago. Communists began the tradition of observing IWD in memory of those struggles. Ironically, the powers-that-be and the advertisements all across try to hide the real legacy of Women’s Day and seek to establish a different narrative. They try to tell us that International Women’s Day (IWD) is an occasion when husbands are supposed to buy women washing machines and kitchen gadgets, when boyfriends are supposed to buy them flowers, and governments are supposed to make promises for ‘women empowerment’. So it is important for us to collectively reassert the fighting legacy of the international women’s day and draw lessons for the tasks a...

Letter to “Man-Africanists” on International Women’s Day

NOVANEWS Getty Images Ama Biney The Pan-Africanist movement harbours some African men who conceal patriarchal attitudes. These “Man-Africanists” are cancerous to the advancement of the movement that needs to engage in developing new men who are genuinely anti-sexist, anti-heterosexist, empathetic, connected to a radical political concept of self-awareness, and guided by an ethical sense of equality, justice and freedom for all. Dear “Man-Africanists” in Africa and the global diaspora, On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2017, it is necessary for us to appraise the achievements of women globally and also re-evaluate their current oppressions. I will confine myself to some of the conditions facing the African woman both on the continent and in ...