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Results: International Women's Day March 8 - #BalanceforBetter

Published on 03/05/2019
By: Harriet56
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Just as some feel we do not need Black History Month or LGBTQ Pride Parades -- citing why do we not have white history month or straight pride parades -- many feel we do not need an International Women's Day. Considering that women make up approximately 50% of the population, were you aware of these statistics?
Just as some feel we do not need Black History Month or LGBTQ Pride Parades -- citing why do we not have white history month or straight pride parades -- many feel we do not need an International Women's Day. Considering that women make up approximately 50% of the population, were you aware of these statistics?
Women make 16 percent less money than their male counterparts.-- Although the pay gap is narrowing, women in the U.S. working full- and part-time make 84 percent of what their male counterparts earn, according to the Pew Research Center.
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Women are underrepresented in government. -- Although women make up nearly 51 percent of the U.S. population, only 20 percent of the U.S. Congress is comprised of women. Worldwide, just 22 percent of all national parliamentarians were female
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Women are the minority in the executive suite. -- At Fortune 500 companies, they account for 17 percent of boards members, 15 percent of C-suite executives and 5 percent of CEOs, according to Business Insider.
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Women still shoulder more of the household burden. -- According to the U.S. government's National Time Use Survey, working moms are more likely to be saddled with childcare duties than working fathers, even if both spouses work equal hours outside the house.
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Women are far more likely to be the victims of human trafficking.-- More than 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year, according to a report in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology. And a whopping 80 percent of them are women and girls
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Female soldiers face rape and harassment.-- Between one-fifth and one-half of female veterans were sexually harassed while on active duty, and women are more likely to leave with PTSD from rape than from actual fighting
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Women overall are at a greater risk of rape and domestic violence.-- In fact, women between the ages of 15 and 44 are at a greater risk of experiencing rape or domestic violence than cancer, car accidents, war or malaria, according to the World Bank. And as much as 70 percent of women worldwide experience violence during their life
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Women pay more for common household items than men do -- Shampoo, deodorant—even a 10-pack of socks—are among the many products that cost more for women, according to an analysis by Marie Claire.
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Women of all ages are more likely than men to live below the poverty line. -- Across the U.S., 15.5% of women live in poverty compared with 11.9 percent of men, according to a report from the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
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International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first​ ​IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Prior to this the​ Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom's Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for women's equality. Do you agree or disagree that women are still not treated as equals to men?
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first​ ​IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Prior to this the​ Socialist Party of America, United Kingdom's Suffragists and Suffragettes, and further groups campaigned for women's equality. Do you agree or disagree that women are still not treated as equals to men?
Agree -- while it has greatly improved, it is still not where it should be
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Disagree -- I see nothing different in the way women and men are treated
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I personally think that women should NOT be treated as equals to men
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Besides all the examples in the previous question, women had to deal with getting no credit at all for their hard work for years with these inventions that were credited to men. You may recognize Katherine Johnson's name from the 2017 box-office hit Hidden Figures. Before her recognition in the film adaptation, Johnson was nicknamed a "computer" for her intelligence. She discovered the exact path for the Freedom 7 spacecraft to successfully enter space for the first time in 1961 and later for the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon in 1969. She often went unrecognized by her male colleagues and faced racial discrimination. So, setting the record straight, how many of these discoveries/inventions (at first credited to men) were you aware were actually invented or discovered by women?
Besides all the examples in the previous question, women had to deal with getting no credit at all for their hard work for years with these inventions that were credited to men. You may recognize Katherine Johnson's name from the 2017 box-office hit Hidden Figures. Before her recognition in the film adaptation, Johnson was nicknamed a
Dr. Grace Murray Hopper created the first computer language compiler tools to program the Harvard Mark I computer—IBM's computer that was often used for World War II efforts. Though it's noted in history that John von Neumann initiated the computer's first program, Hopper is the one who invented the codes to program it.
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Vera Rubin is the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter in the atmosphere. She worked with astronomer Kent Ford in the '60s and '70s, when they discovered the reasoning behind stars' movement outside of the galaxy. She's dubbed a "national treasure" but remains without a Noble Peace Prize
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The invention of everyone's favorite board game, Monopoly, has been credited to Charles Darrow, who sold it to Parker Brothers in 1935. But it was Elizabeth Magie Phillips who came up with the original inspiration, The Landlord's Game, in 1903
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Esther Lederberg played a large part in determining how genes are regulated, along with the process of making RNA from DNA. She often collaborated with her husband Joshua Lederberg on their work on microbial genetics, but it was Esther who discovered lambda phage—a virus that infects E. coli bacteria. Despite their collaboration, her husband claimed the 1958 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on how bacteria mate.
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Alice Ball was a young chemist at Kalihi Hospital in Hawaii who focused on Hansen's disease, a.k.a. leprosy. Her research sought to find a cure for the disease by figuring out how to inject chaulmoogra oil directly into the bloodstream. Ball became sick and returned home, where she died in 1916. Arthur Dean took over her study, and Ball became a memory—until a medical journey now referred to the "Ball Method."
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered irregular radio pulses while working as a research assistant at Cambridge. After showing the discovery of the pulses to her advisor, the team worked together to uncover what they truly were: Neuron stars, AKA pulsars. Burnell received zero credit for her discovery—instead, her advisor Antony Hewish and Martin Ryle received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974.
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Chien-Shiung Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she developed the process for separating uranium metal. In 1956, she conducted the Wu experiment that focused on electromagnetic interactions. After it yielded surprising results, Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang, the physicists who originated a similar theory in the field, received credit for her work, winning the Nobel Prize for the experiment in 1957.
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Rosalind Franklin's X-ray photographs of DNA revealed the molecule's true structure as a double helix, which was a theory denounced by scientists James Watson and Francis Crick at the time. However, since Watson and Crick originally discovered the (single) helix, they ended up receiving a Noble Prize for their research.
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The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first computer ever built. In 1946, six women programmed this electronic computer as part of a secret World War II project. Inventor John Mauchly is often the only one who gets credit for its creation, but the programmers are the ones who fully developed the machine.
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Lise Meitner discovered the true power of uranium, noting that atomic nuclei split during some reactions. The discovery was credited to her lab partner Otto Hahn, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944.
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