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International Women's Day

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Today is, of course, International Women's Day (IWD), so I wasn't going to miss the opportunity to talk about it on my blog! I love IWD- it's an opportunity to celebrate women, which is something we should obviously do every day but at the same time is something that so often gets forgotten about. Too often we watch women drag other women down, shame them for their actions and insult them. It's upsetting, but hey, it happens. Its nice that for at least one day a year, most  women seem to come together to celebrate the powerful, wonderful and brilliant humans that we are, and are able to encourage each other to keep up this attitude all year around.  Being a women is so complex in today's society and whilst over the last hundred years, women's position in society has definitely improved, there is still somehow  so much further to go. There is still a wage gap between the genders, there is still severe issues around sexual assault and rape, there is sti...