Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Trouble With Focusing on Women and Girls


It may come as a surprise that International Women’s Day was met with lukewarm enthusiasm at ForbesWoman headquarters. Feelings ranged from “but we cover women everyday,” to “what the heck is international women’s day?” to “yawn.”

Call it girl power ennui, but something about “celebrating” a holiday by hashing and rehashing the trials and troubles of women throughout the world just didn’t get our juices flowing. As the rest of the female world shared congratulations on the landmark 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something a little unfair about the whole thing.

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