Caption This: 100 Years of International Women’s Day

Social media is all a flurry this morning letting me know that it is the 100 year anniversary to International Women’s Day. Only 100 years? Feels like we should have been honoring women since the dawn of time.

To celebrate the day, I wanted to post an iconic image that some of you may recognize from 1971 of the Mukti Bahini women of Bangladesh. I dedicate this post and this image to all the mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers out there, all fighters in their own revolutionary way.

Let’s have a go around of “Caption This”, shall we? Let’s keep it a celebratory post, please. And if anyone has another image or link to a website to honor International Women’s Day, please share it in the comments – I’d love to hear and see stories and images that pull you on this important day.

11 thoughts on “Caption This: 100 Years of International Women’s Day”

These women do it in pink.

And if you’re in New York, you can catch a documentary about them today: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154177597969745

Hmm, that website might not be the most relevant link… Here’s a BBC story from a few years ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7068875.stm

The Guardian is putting together a great gallery of submitted photos for Women’s right here,

http://tinyurl.com/68cpm29

Sampat Pal should get a Padma award. It seems like any two-bit Bolly chick can get one. Let’s give it to someone who deserves it.

The Guardian also did a great list of Top 100 Women, across all different fields – there is a remarkable number of South Asians in the activists and campaigners category 🙂

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/top-100-women

Sampat Pal is on the list – http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/08/sampat-pal-devi-100-women