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Today is International Women's Day, it has been celebrated on this date for the last 100 years. The objective of IWD is to celebrate Women's achievements and acts as a catalyst for change when it comes to gender equality. The theme for this year is #PRESSFORPROGRESS. The IWD website says: "We can't be complacent now, more than ever, there's a strong call-to-action to press forward and progress gender parity, a strong call to #PRESSFORPROGRESS. A strong call to motivate and unite friends, colleagues and whole communities to think, act and be gender inclusive."   THE HISTORY OF IWD The earliest observance of Woman's day was held in New York on February 28th 1909, and was organised by the socialist party of America. A year later, at the International Women's Day conference in Copenhagen, socialist representatives proposed that there be an International Women's Day, inspired by the demonstration in New York. The delegates agreed that...