Here's How Social Media Celebrated International Women's Day
March 8 was International Women’s Day, where we were invited to celebrate the economic, cultural and political achievement of women worldwide.
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March 8 was International Women’s Day, where we were invited to celebrate the economic, cultural and political achievement of women worldwide. While there is much to celebrate, according to the International Women’s Day website, progress has slowed.
IWD noted:
The World Economic Forum predicted in 2014 that it would take until 2095 to achieve global gender parity. Then one year later in 2015, they estimated that a slowdown in the already glacial pace of progress meant the gender gap wouldn’t close entirely until 2133.
Facebook celebrated International Women’s Day with a celebratory image atop News Feeds.
The theme for this year was #PledgeForParity. According to data provided by Talkwalker, the hashtag was used more than 98,500 times with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, business luminary Richard Branson and actress Gillian Anderson making the pledge.
It’s #IWD2016!
