By Sudeep Reddy, The Wall Street Journal

The World Bank’s latest World Development Report, which focuses on gender equality around the world, offers some stark facts about how women and girls fare in developing countries despite decades of progress.

In the School of Science, 92% of the women faculty participated and the following findings can be reported. Since the 1999 report, the number of women faculty in the School of Science has almost doubled, with women faculty in multiple senior administrative positions. The 1999 and 2002 reports showed that women faculty members at MIT felt professionally marginalized — through access to fewer resources and exclusion from departmental decision-making.

The U.S. Supreme Court will litigate one of the largest job discrimination cases in American history, involving sexism claims against retail giant Wal-Mart from more than a million of its female employees. Betty Dukes, the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit, discusses the disadvantages some women may have faced. The Supreme Court is set to begin hearing arguments in a Walmart gender discrimination case involving hundreds of thousands of female employees, current and former, regarding pay and promotions since 1998.

Would you like to help our beautiful California State Parks but don’t know how?  Consumers throughout the Southland can give a badly-needed boost to state parks simply by shopping at local grocery stores and buying certain products.  It’s all part of “Preserve Our Parks” (http://preserveourparks.info) a public/private partnership that unites Stater Bros. Supermarkets and Coca-Cola Refreshments for the third straight year. 

Women’s Feature Service, an international news organization directed and staffed by women who produce articles reported from 40 countries for newspapers, magazines and Web sites and is based in New Delhi, India. At Women’s Feature Service, journalists write about women’s lives. By gathering and providing access to these stories about women’s lives, Women’s Feature Service (WFS) seeks to create “space” for women’s voices and experiences in mainstream media, where such topics don’t usually receive this same kind of attention.

White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said that equal pay for women still remains a top priority for the president. In light of being sensitive to our budget constraints, the president has said that we need to make some tough choices. Jarrett said that they are working very closely with the state and local government to make sure that as they tighten their belts, they are doing it in a way that is sensitive to those who are most vulnerable.

Women are used to being told how good they are and being given what they want without asking. In general, if they can't get what they want they will find someone friendly to intervene on their behalf. Men on the other hand have to fight for what they get. Men are expected to achieve on their merits, even if merit means playing the corporate game.

Toronto's celebration of the 100th Anniversary International Women's Day was through a Webinar which was hosted by Julia Hidy. Julia Hidy, is an author for EnergyforYourLife.com: The Essential Guide, and she also gave a mini-workshop on, “More Energy for Your Everyday Life.” Julia Hidy also hosted an International Women's Day event and author reading in 1998 at Indigo Books, Toronto. Julia Hidy said, "I wanted the 100th anniversary event to be memorable and virtual so many people could access it - either during the event or after”.

Parwati Bai is a Lady Health Worker (LHW) in the village. Her house is exceptionally clean. The district, incidentally, has a majority of Hindus as its population. Muslims and Hindus co-exist peacefully in this region. Parwati proudly shows the tiny clean room that serves as a health center in her house. It has a small steel trunk which stores basic medicines that can help bring down a fever, help rehydrate a dehydrated child or capsules that give necessary folic acid to a pregnant woman to avoid anemia.

International Women's Day recognizes the contributions of women, who have overcome barriers, defied conventional wisdom and changed the world. The day is also an opportunity for us to recognize all women – past heroines, today's leaders and tomorrow's champions for what they have achieved and what is to come. The 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day – a day to honor the monumental achievements of women worldwide – is March 8, 2011.

We were 25 participants in a great lounge in Montreal. The evening started with a wonderful voice, Anick Leonard, who decided a few minutes before to sing accapella, Whitney Houston's song: One moment in time. It was phenomenal. After, we presented Win's organization and their purpose and playing also the nice ''This is Our Time'' video and song. Vanessa Simpkins, the law of attraction coach, spoke about how she went from bankrupt to $900 a day selling mops! After this, we honored our two Outstanding service Awards to Marie-Eve and Marylin Bali.

The center in Kigali hosted the 100th Women's Day Program at Top Tower Hotel which was received by U.S.A by Global Expansion Specialist for The Women 's information Network (WIN)
www.theWINonline.com. The program was started with lamp lighting candles by Ms. Bernadette Kanzayire Deputy Ombudsman and a Representative of the US Embassy Mrs. Jenniffer Fohz.

Sister Seeta who is the National coordinator of Brahma Kumaris in Rwanda introduced the event of the day at the Brahma Kumaris. Over 100 professional men and women attended the program.

Indian companies are now adopting work-from-home and flexible working hour policies to provide an ideal working atmosphere for women. There are several women at powerful positions. They balance both work and home very well. Murugavel Janakiraman, founder and CEO of Bharatmatrimony.com said that his organization provides benefits to pregnant women by allowing them to have a three-month flexi-hour working facility in addition to maternity leave.

International Women's Day was honored the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on March 19. More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination. Since its birth in the socialist movement, International Women's Day has grown to become a global day of recognition and celebration across developed and developing countries alike. For decades, IWD has grown from strength to strength annually.