International Women’s DayMarch 8, 2013

Hmong WomanHmong culture is patrilineal, allowing husband’s

family to make all major decisions

Bastille Day - 7/19/1917 Women’s Suffrage

Keiko KitagawaHollywood & Japanese Actress

CHADMany marriages are arranged when girls are 11 or 12;

murders, beating and sexual violence are commonplace

Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna RosseliniItalian actress, filmmaker, author,

philanthropist and Lancôme model

Duchess of Cambridge Catherine

Native Chicquero Papua Island

Nina RicciFashion Designer & Icon

In 1906, Finland was the first country to give women the right to vote and run for office

PakistanMarital rape is not illegal, nearly 800 honor killings in 2010

and violence against women was up 20% in 2011

Hina Rabani Khar, Pakistani Politician

Dilma Rousseff, President of BrazilHer Excellency

Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica

First Female President elected in 2010

Sofia Margarita Vergara Columbian & American Actress, Comedienne, Television

Hostess and Model

AfghanistanWorld’s highest rate of maternal mortality, more than 85% of

women give birth with no medical care.

Meditation Stones

Princess Diana

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu aka Mother Teresa Founder of Missionaries of

Charity

Rhythmic GymnasticsLondon 2012

Helle Thorning-SchmidtFirst elected female Prime Minister

Julia Eileen Gillard27th Prime Minister of Australia

In the Netherlands, teen pregnancy is the lowest in the world and Dutch women report being

happier than anywhere else in the world

Vigdís Finnbogadóttir4th President of Iceland 1980-1996

Europe’s first female president, world’s first democratically elected head of state

Women’s WeighliftingLondon 2012

MaliThe majority of women have been subjected to

female genital mutilation

Martial Arts Masters

Natalie PortmanAmerican Actress, born in Jerusalem, Israel, dual citizenship

Emmanuelle RivaOldest Oscar nominee for Best Actress

Amore

Catherine Zeta-JonesWelsh & American Actress Academy Award for

Best Supporting Actress, Chicago

Democratic Republic of CongoDomestic violence among the worst in the world.

Some 1,000 women are raped every day.

Charlize TheronBorn in Benoni Johannesburg, South Africa, American Actress

and Model, Academy Award Best Actress, Monster

Cristina Fernandez de KirchnerPresident of Argentina

YemenNo legal recognition of domestic violence, spousal rape,

and women must live with their husbands

Queen Elizabeth IIMonarch, United Kingdom

Fountain Square 8/1973 Women’s Suffrage Day

Angela MerkelChancellor, Germany

Celebrating Women