Happy International Women's Day!
Sunday 8 March 2015 marks International Women’s Day, an annual event that celebrates women’s accomplishments and promotes global gender equality.
This year’s theme is ‘make it happen’ and aims to encourage effective action for advancing and recognizing women. It focuses on women in different professional sectors; the arts, female-owned businesses, in senior leadership roles, and all aspects of working environments where gender parity has still not been achieved.
In Nigeria, women not only occupy fewer positions in the public sector, but earn consistently less income than their male counterparts. Women occupy fewer than 30 percent of all posts in the public sector and only 17 percent of senior positions.
In addition, nearly five times as many judges and permanent secretaries are men rather than women.
There are 54 million women who live and work in rural areas and even though women constitute 60-79 percent of the rural workforce, a woman is five times less likely to own land than a man.
Unfortunately, gender discrimination does not stop there, with mothers facing an even greater challenge when they try to return to the work place after their maternity leave. A study in August 2014 found one in ten of those in low paid work were demoted to a more junior role when they returned to work.
Google has celebrated International Women’s Day with a doodle presenting women in high achieving roles as astronauts, scientists, athletes, teachers, musicians, chefs and writers – roles that were once reserved solely for men. It links out to a series of stories highlighting why such an event is still so crucial over a century after it was first launched. The doodle’s caption reads: “Happy International Women’s Day!’
Google will also be working with The Drum to acknowledge the most prominent women working in the search marketing sector with a poll opening on 8 March.
The first International Women's Day was held in 1911 and is celebrated annually on 8 March with thousands of events across the world.
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| PICTURE: http://www.unwomen.org/ |
In Nigeria, women not only occupy fewer positions in the public sector, but earn consistently less income than their male counterparts. Women occupy fewer than 30 percent of all posts in the public sector and only 17 percent of senior positions.
In addition, nearly five times as many judges and permanent secretaries are men rather than women.
There are 54 million women who live and work in rural areas and even though women constitute 60-79 percent of the rural workforce, a woman is five times less likely to own land than a man.
Unfortunately, gender discrimination does not stop there, with mothers facing an even greater challenge when they try to return to the work place after their maternity leave. A study in August 2014 found one in ten of those in low paid work were demoted to a more junior role when they returned to work.
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| IMAGE: Google Doodle celebrating female achievement across the globe |
Google will also be working with The Drum to acknowledge the most prominent women working in the search marketing sector with a poll opening on 8 March.
The first International Women's Day was held in 1911 and is celebrated annually on 8 March with thousands of events across the world.
Happy International Women's Day!
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