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Feminism's global challenge

speaking with one voice

Guardian editorialist Mariella Frostrup took a fierce stance on International Women's Day: in the West "our struggle for emancipation and equality has been surreptitiously rewritten as a harpy bra-burning contest", while in the rest of the world women are still far from achieving their most basic rights. But the two issues are interlaced, they are two faces of the same coin.

"Women's role in conflict resolution was highlighted in Liberia, - argues Ms. Frostrup - first in ending the bloody reign of Charles Taylor and then in electing the first ever female African president, the recent Nobel Peace prize nominee Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. Johnson-Sirleaf has also this year won the coveted African Gender Award for helping poor women send children to school and for developing a female enterprise fund. In neighbouring Rwanda, women now outnumber men in parliament (by 52% to 48% men)".

"he emancipation of women is the only possible future for the developing world, as it was and continues to be for us. There are too many people on this planet for us to be able to afford to leave nearly 50% of them in penury, uneducated and without a voice. Making women equal partners makes sense for both sexes. My profound hope is that we can, men and women alike, work together to create the circumstances in which International Women's Day can become the cause for celebration it should be. Once that's been achieved we'll work on creating that International Men's Day, too – promise".

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