The Atlantic gives us a wonderful way to celebrate
International Women's Day (which was yesterday).
An Indian woman walks past a billboard of Australian model Miranda Kerr in Mumbai, on on March 8, 2013. (Punit Paranjpe/AFP/Getty Images) #
A bodyguard from the National Protection Unit (NPU)
wears her flak jacket before a training
session at a firing range near
Bogota, Colombia, on March 1, 2013.
(Reuters/Jose Miguel Gomez)
Prison inmates dance in opposition to violence
against women as they participate in a One Billion Rising event at the
San Francisco County Jail
#5 on Valentine's Day in San Bruno,
California, on February 14, 2013. The event, with
participants from 250
countries performing a choreographed dance routine on a day associated
with romantic love, aimed to raise awareness about violence against
women in which one in
three women across the globe will be raped or
beaten in their lifetime. (Reuters/Stephen Lam)
Female Marine recruits Princesse Aldrete (left) and
Genisis Ordonez (right) stand in formation following hand-to-hand
combat training during boot camp at MCRD Parris Island, South Carolina,
on February 27, 2013. Female enlisted Marines have gone through recruit
training at the base since 1949. About 11 percent of female recruits who
arrive at the boot camp fail to complete the training, which can be
physically and mentally demanding. On January 24, 2013 Secretary of
Defense Leon Panetta rescinded an order, which had been in place since
1994, that restricted women from being attached to ground combat units.
About six percent of enlisted Marines are female. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #
A sex worker talks to a man outside a hotel in the
Geylang red light district in Singapore, on February 8, 2013. In the
Geylang district, licensed prostitutes from China, Thailand and other
Asian countries work in brothels that are technically illegal but
obvious in their purpose with red lights and flashing signs. An
unlicensed and illegal sex trade is rampant in doorways and on street
corners elsewhere in Geylang. (Reuters/Edgar Su) #
A woman shouts slogans as she protests violence
against women, at the close of the National Meeting of Rural Women in
Brasilia, Brazil, on February 21, 2013. (Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino) #
Bahraini women watch the funeral of Habib Ibrahim,
88, a man whose family and opposition rights activists allege died from
tear gas fired by police during earlier clashes in Malkiya village,
Bahrain, Sunday, Jan 13, 2013. Graffiti on the wall reads," Down Hamad,"
referring to the king of Bahrain, along with images of people who died
during the unrest. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) #
Zahraa, an Iraqi woman who fled the conflict in her
country, attends an event organized by Medecins Sans Frontieres, at a
hospital in Amman, Jordan, on March 7, 2013. Dozens of women who were
injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Yemen and Syria currently attend
daily treatment sessions while undergoing surgeries at the hospital run
by the Paris-based Medecins Sans Frontieres. (Reuters/Ali Jarekji) #
Pakistani women cook for their family using a fire inside their
makeshift home, in a slum in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) #
Riot police officers arrest a women's rights group
Femen activist in front of the European Union Council building during a
protest against the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin in
Brussels, on December 21, 2012. (Reuters/Francois Lenoir) #
Indian laborers work to lay a cable for an electricity company in Ahmadabad, India, on March 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) #
Police officers participate in a parade during the
celebration of the 183rd anniversary of the Uruguayan Police Force in
downtown Montevideo, on December 18, 2012. (Reuters/Andres Stapff) #
Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai (center)
waves with nurses as she is discharged from The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
in Birmingham, on January 4, 2013. The Pakistani girl shot in the head
by the Taliban for advocating girls' education was discharged from the
specialist British hospital after doctors said she was well enough to
spend some time recovering with her family. Fifteen-year-old Yousufzai,
who was shot by the Taliban in October last year and brought to Britain
for treatment, is due to be re-admitted for reconstructive surgery to
her skull, doctors said. (Reuters/Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham) #
Mirjam Jaeger of Switzerland competes in the
women's Ski Halfpipe event at the FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships
in Oslo, Norway, on March 5, 2013. (AP Photo /Stian Lysberg Solum, NTB scanpix) #
Masaai women line up at dawn to vote in a general
election in Kumpa, Kenya, on March 4, 2013. Five years after more than
1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans went to
the polls on Monday to begin casting votes in a nationwide election seen
as the country's most important - and complicated - in its 50-year
history. (AP Photo/Riccardo Gangale) #
An image depicting a female North Korean soldier
leading an artillery attack is projected on a large screen behind
singers and the Unhasu Orchestra during a concert to mark International
Women's Day in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday, March 8, 2013. The
text at the top of the screen reads, "We are the General's female
coastal artillery troops." (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin) #
A woman drives a car simulator at a driving school
in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 5, 2013. Struggling to achieve some of their
dreams in a conservative society, an increasing number of Yemeni women
are taking their driving test to learn to drive in a safe environment. (Reuters/Khaled Abdullah) #
Women,part of the Sawt al-Haq (Voice of Rights),
stand with their weapons as they undergo military training in Aleppo,
Syria, on February 17, 2013. A group of women are undergoing military
training to form the Nazek Obeid group, based on the frontline of
Aleppo's Sheikh Saeed neighborhood. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman) #
Kurdish members of the Popular Protection Units
stand guard at a check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli,
Syria, on March 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo) #
Kurdish members of the Popular Protection Units
stand guard at a check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli,
Syria, on March 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo) #
Demonstrators perform a street play about rape during a protest near
India's parliament in New Delhi, on February 21, 2013. Hundreds of
demonstrators on Thursday held a protest near the parliament demanding
Indian lawmakers to implement harsher punishments and quicker trials for
rape cases following the gang rape of a student that shook the nation
on December 16. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi) #
Maryland guards Chloe Pavlech, right, and Sequoia
Austin celebrate after Austin scored in the second half of an NCAA
college basketball game against Wake Forest in College Park, Maryland,
on March 3, 2013. Maryland won 88-61. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) #
Dr. Crezoit Yapo of the Association of Women
Researchers in the Ivory Coast (AFEMC-CI) works in her laboratory at the
Institut Pasteur in Abidjan, on March 5, 2013. The association was
formed to raise the profile of women working in scientific research in
the Ivory Coast. It helps women raise funding for their projects and
seeks to promote scientific research, a field dominated by men, as a
viable career option among young women by helping them obtain
scholarships. (Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon) #
Mongolian singer Gennie, 26, a cast member in the
documentary "Mongolian Bling", poses for a photo at an undisclosed
location. Rap and the hip-hop culture it extols are helping young
Mongolians express the stresses of dealing with an increasingly urban
society and all its woes. "Mongolian Bling", a 90-minute documentary by
Australian Benj Binks, showcases how hip-hop has become a popular
vehicle of expression for the nation's stress. A wife and a mother,
Gennie sings about politics, women's issues and the environment, and is
called the "queen of Mongolian hip-hop". (Reuters/Benj Binks/Mongolian Bling) #
A woman attends a training session of the Boxgirls
Berlin, on March 6, 2013. The Boxgirls Berlin are part of the Boxgirls
International organization that supports women and girls using boxing
programs as a catalyst for social change in their cities with the slogan
'Strong Girls, Save Communities' and supporting the women and girls
empowerment. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) #
A widow poses for a picture inside her room at the
Meera Sahavagini ashram in the pilgrimage town of Vrindavan in the
northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on March 6, 2013. Hundreds of
widows who have been abandoned by their families live in the shelter, or
ashram, run by the NGO Sulabh International. In India, when a man dies,
traditionally his widow is expected to renounce all earthly pleasures,
such as wearing colorful clothes or looking attractive, and she can face
severe social discrimination. Sulabh International works to provide
abandoned widows with education, healthcare and vocational skills. (Reuters/Adnan Abidi) #
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