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Antonia Zerbisias is a fantastic columnist with The Toronto Star. The first paragraph of this article pretty much sums it up. If you read no further, at least read that much:

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/777441--zerbisias-women-s-day-woes

Here it is, I'll save you some time:

"Monday was the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day.

Not that I put much store in that sort of thing.

Not while millions of women and girls around the world are, right now, walking miles for water, scavenging for food, enduring gang rapes, having acid thrown in their faces, being killed for talking to boys, staying out of school for lack of menstrual products, bleeding to death while delivering their sixth child ... Did they know it was International Women's Day?

Oh but hey, in Canada's Parliament, our MPs sure did."

The local rock station took the opportunity to come up with all kinds of wacky factoids about men vs women on IWD. Good work idiots! I dont think they get it, no wonder the general listenership doesnt either.

Im at a loss to explain this:

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/

with a global partner being "Thomson Reuters" and sponsoring partner the "European Investment Bank"

somehow they actually mention the Socialist Party of America and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire yet in the same pages there is this (argh!):

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/business/

not this: