A nother International Women's Day was celebrated March 8, though "celebrate" is perhaps not the right word. Most women around the world were too busy making ends meet to find time to celebrate.
This year's reports from the United Nations Human Rights Center and various labor rights organizations were not as disastrous as in the past, but showed little improvement in women's living and working conditions.
Several reports focused on the work-life balance that most women have yet to achieve. A report by the International Trade Union Confederation found that women with children earn an average 68 percent of what men do, and even women without children earn only 74 percent. Those worldwide figures differ from country to country, of course, but nowhere do women come close to functional equality with men.