International Women’s day was first marked in 1911 by over one million women and men in a number of European countries. One century later it is impossible to deny the level of progress that has been made in the developed world when it comes to women’s rights, with the gender having been emancipated from unequal treatment and oppression. Women in the west can now vote and can choose how to live their lives without seeking permission from fathers or husbands. Many women, and men, now understandably feel that the battle has been won as International Women’s Day is now marked globally. It is even a national holiday in a number of post-communist countries.

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