International Women's Day 2017

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From 8am to 5pm we brought you updates celebrating women all around the world
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Thank you for celebrating International Women's Day with uspublished at 17:01 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
It's been an inspiration seeing so many supportive messages and photos. Obviously here on Woman's Hour we think it's important to celebrate women every day! Special thanks to Carey Mulligan for joining Jane on Facebook Live to answer your questions. If you missed it earlier you can watch it again here:
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If you want to hear more inspiring stories from around the world check out our International Women's Day collection .
#BeBoldForChangepublished at 16:58 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
Here are just a few of our favourite moments from International Women's Day 2017
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We've come so far! But there's still a long way to go:
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'Teasing and abuse is increasing everyday'published at 16:41 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
Artist and Turkish academic, Zeyno lost her job as a lecturer last year after signing a peace petition. She describes how she feels about being a woman in Turkey today.
'We are alive with power and passion - because we need to be' published at 16:34 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
To celebrate #IWD2017, external Sandi Toksvig shared her thoughts with us on why it's important to be an activist.
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Meet Scotland's 'outstanding' womenpublished at 16:28 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
Ten women have been inducted into the Saltire Society's "Outstanding Women of Scotland" hall of fame, including writer, performer, poet and teacher Jo Clifford and political activist and co-founder of the Glasgow Girls Roza Salih.
Find out who else is on the list here .
Budget Day 2017: Fund of £5m to help mothers back to workpublished at 16:11 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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A £5m fund to help mothers return to work after a career break was set out in today's Budget, which fell on International Women's Day.
Announcing the move, Prime Minister Theresa May said return to work schemes would be extended to industries where women were under-represented.
She also said domestic violence organisations would receive £20m.
A £5m fund to mark the centenary, in 2018, of the act that first gave women the vote was also announced.
International trade lawyer Miriam Gonzalez criticised Theresa May's record on gender equality, saying that gender rights is more than a few flagship policies.
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Follow live coverage of the Budget here .
Maria Toorpakai: 'I dressed up like my brother and cut my hair' published at 16:02 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
Celebrating the Woman's Hour guests who've inspired us to #BeBoldforChange this year
Jenni Murray
Woman's Hour
Maria Toorpakai was one of the most impressive young women that I've interviewed in recent years. I'm not greatly passionate about sport - it's not really my bag, sport - but here was a young woman born in a quite traditional family in an area of Pakistan where girls are not educated, girls do not play sport.
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Her family did manage to accept that she should be educated and when she decided she wanted to play sport they let her dress as a boy, because it was the only way she could pursue it. She did that for 16 years and became a worldwide, leading squash player. That's impressive.
How would you inspire others?published at 15:43 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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An interactive #beboldforchange installation on London's Southbank encourages people to leave empowering messages for others to pick up.
Here's the model and actress Lily Cole leaving hers.
Meanwhile Lily also recorded this #InternationalWomensDay message especially for Woman's Hour...
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Strikes and protests around the world #IWD2017published at 15:30 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
As part of A Day Without A Woman, external US congresswomen have walked out of work, joining women around the world who are going on strike to protest against sexism. Meanwhile Turkish women in Ankara held a protest against an upcoming referendum to coincide with International Women's Day.
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Women's Day protests around the world
US congresswomen walk out of work in solidarity with women around the world who are going on strike.
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For the first time in documented history there are fewer women on earth than men published at 15:17 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
Ariel Wengroff on working with Gloria Steinem
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Almost two years ago, feminist activist and writer Gloria Steinem and activist Amy Richards came to discuss with me the critical issue that, for the first time in documented history, there are less women on earth than men. Why? Because of global, systemic violence against females -- from female infanticide to domestic violence, sex trafficking, child marriage, "honour" killings, sexualised violence in war zones and more. The world sex ratio is 101.3 males per 100 women on the planet. Months later, we created Woman. Today, as Gloria says, it's a majority belief that we as people should be equal, something that wasn't true even in the 1960s and 70s. On International Women's Day, we need to celebrate and support girls and women everywhere and keep fighting for equality on every level. The more people who can bear witness to these challenges and inequalities, the more it will change.
Ariel Wengroff, Executive producer, Vice
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FARC Commander Antonia Simon Narino
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Life after FGM: a must-listen any day of the yearpublished at 15:02 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
To mark this year's International Women's Day Jane and Jenni looked back at some of the most inspiring women they spoke to in the last year
Jane Garvey
Woman's Hour
Female genital mutilation is one of those subjects that people think Woman’s Hour talks about all the time - and to the programme's credit it is a subject we've talked about consistently over the last 30 years, long before other parts of the media went anywhere near the issue. But we don't talk about it all the time and we've never talked about it as frankly as we did when I interviewed Hibo Wardere.
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It's not about the theory of FGM, it's about the reality. Hibo talked incredibly frankly and brilliantly, in a very detailed way, about what it's like to undergo female genital mutilation - and she put a human voice to something that most people choose not to know too much about, for a string of good reasons. I found the whole thing incredibly moving.
I think she's a brilliant commentator and a brilliant contributor to the debate in Britain about FGM. And when FGM stops, as it will, one of the people who should take credit for that is Hibo. I think she's just a fantastic woman.
New statue for New Yorkpublished at 14:53 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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A statue of a young girl has been placed in front of Wall Street's iconic bull, to call attention to gender inequality and the pay gap in the corporate world.
The statue was commissioned by one of the world's largest fund managers. It says the girl represents the future.
One in four of the 3,000 largest traded US companies do not have even one woman on their board, the company SSGA says.
'There should be no barriers to sport'published at 14:40 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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FA People's Cup: Football mums show daughters how it's done
Meet the mums who took on the challenge of playing in the FA People's Cup - a nationwide five-a-side tournament, featuring more than 6,000 teams across the country.
You can watch our show of highlights from the first round of the People's Cup on iPlayer.
And if you want to get involved in playing football or getting more active, check out our Get Inspired football guide or go to our Activity Finder and find sports and activities in your area, specifically for women.
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What's trending on International Women's Day?published at 14:25 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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Nike's hijab for Muslim female athletes
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Do you know your female firsts?published at 14:17 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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Think you know where the first woman to fly into space was from? Test your knowledge with this short quiz .
'I think I have witnessed a revolution'published at 14:00 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
The wonderful classicist Mary Beard recorded this special #IWD2017 message for you. She celebrates how far we've come and what we have yet to conquer.
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Pages through the agespublished at 13:48 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
If you're compiling a book club list this IWD or working out what best to read next, Caitlin Moran has some advice.
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A moment to rememberpublished at 13:33 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
Emma Barnett was out on the Women's March in London on Sunday 5 March
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I marched arm in arm with Helen Pankhurst and her daughter Laura Pankhurst (great and great great granddaughters respectively of Emmeline Pankhurst - the suffragette leader) - across a specially closed Tower Bridge.
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Two generations of Pankhurst now fighting for women in the developing world to have equality. This was as we were just crossing the bridge and is a moment which I won't forget
Today, Emma was at Westminster covering Prime Minister's Questions.
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Meet the grannies going to schoolpublished at 13:24 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2017
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Every afternoon, the grandmothers of Phangane village wrap pink saris around themselves and slip abacuses and chalkboard into their backpacks.
They live in Maharashtra state in India, a country where women are nearly a third less likely than men to be able to read and write , external .
Today is the one-year anniversary of the school and photographer Satyaki Ghosh has been documenting the women's journey to literacy.
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The village where grannies go to school
Photos of a special school which has been set up in India for women aged 60 or over.
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The last laugh?published at 13:08
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The wittiest responses to common sexist comments.
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