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  • one of the unique things about International Women's Day is it gives us a chance to really look at the international component of how women are doing across the world.

  • I think one of the big questions my own International Women's Day is How did it start?

  • Actually first started in 1909 as National Women's Day and had some socialist background with it.

  • By 1911 International Women's Day was marked for the first time by a 1,000,000 people in the seventies and eighties in the U.

  • S International.

  • Wednesday really came a movement where all the sudden issues like equal pay access to certain healthcare's and other things became kind of the roots of what most people were focused on.

  • In 1977 the U.

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  • General Assembly, officially named March 8th as International Women's Day.

  • When you're talking to women that are really at the top of their field, they often where the first they got there, they had to break through a lot of glass ceilings.

  • We still have a long way to go.

  • This is the generation that's really focused on actually getting a quality.

  • Eleanor Roosevelt sounds like something she would do Oh, boy.

  • I'm gonna go with United Nations.

  • The Socialist Party of America?

  • Yes, I thought it would be the U.

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  • But I saw, like, some promo stuff for International Women's Day.

  • So maybe I cheated, but yeah.

  • Working women, working women, working women.

  • I was born in Poland, and when I was a child, it was a big deal in Communist Poland, and people would bring flowers to women on International Women's Day was taken seriously, but in a kind of, um, chivalrous sort of way, Not in the substantive way that we think about it today.

  • Off the 57 I'm gonna pick the lowest number because I have no confidence.

  • 2300 and 3 23 Okay, so it's bad if the HR person gets this one wrong?

  • Uh, I guess it's 25%.

  • 18%.

  • 25%.

  • Wow, We're doing better.

  • I'm actually pursuing my MBA at the University of Virginia Starting school of business, and the women in the program have decided to all wear red on Sunday is a way to bring attention to gender quality.

  • I think it would be nice to get together with some of my friends you know, like mostly women.

  • But I guess guys come if they want.

  • Call some women in my life, uh, to celebrate International Women's Day.

  • I call my mom my 50.

  • I'm going to call my mom and my aunt and my grandmother is just because they are people that from the very beginning taught me the importance of speaking up for myself in order to get myself into a room and have my thoughts certain.

  • Well, I have a five year old daughter, so I will be hanging out with her.

  • And, um, she recently learned that a woman has never been president, which she thought was very, very unfair, comfortable being uncomfortable in her own skin.

  • I was lucky enough to grow up kind of having that really strong female professional role model that just showed me from the very beginning that women could be in positions of power.

  • They could be making the money in the family, someone who understands her own value and also looks for value in other people, trust your own instincts and has values that she holds herself thio via voice.

  • It's important to listen, but I think especially for young women, it's also important to be heard, knows who they are and doesn't let anyone else tell them otherwise.

  • I think some of us coming up have suffered from this tokenism in the workplace where there could only be the one woman.

  • And then we were all looking to see.

  • How does she lied?

  • How does she behave?

  • How does she speak?

  • There's no one way to be a woman leader.

  • I am very young in an industry that is, uh, excuse a bit older.

  • I think that in my own way, I'm blazing trails for coverage of politics, which also tends to be very white and male.

  • Rule is all about women's empowerment, so we believe whether you're in public service, you're running for office.

  • You were in the private sector.

  • You're an entrepreneur.

  • More women in positions of leadership is a good thing.

one of the unique things about International Women's Day is it gives us a chance to really look at the international component of how women are doing across the world.

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