International Women's Day

On March 8th we celebrate the International Women's Day.

Watch these videos and prepare a brief speech expressing your own point of view. You can use the following questions to think of some ideas.

• Why women's day?
• But is there really inequality between men and women? (access to education, health care, working conditions...)
• Why is it that women's equality is said to be important for all peoples and not just an issue for women?
• Is the head of state/government in your country a man or a woman?
• Has a woman ever been the head of state/government in your country?
• What is the highest office held by a woman in your country?
• Can you name a woman head of state currently in office?
• Why do you think there are and there have been so few women in positions of power?
• As heads of state, would women take different decisions than men?
• Would it make a difference in the world -- in the poverty, violence and inequality that afflict the world -- if there were more women in parliaments and other national and international bodies?