Props to Google for today’s Google Doodle:
Unlike past women’s day doodles, this doesn’t look at achievements from the past, but at the achievements to come.
The theme for this year is gender parity. You may not think this is a problem here in the United States, and comparatively, you would be right. The United States is ranked 20th, which is okay for industrialized nations. But many third world countries (and … let’s be honest… Mideast countries) have very poor gender parity.
This is why I have taken Fiji off my bucket list of places to travel. Even though the women there have roughly the same education and literacy rate as men, and have the best parity of all countries when it comes to health care, they have almost zero political power or representation in the political process. And it is getting worse.