International Women’s Day (IWD) is a day to highlight the great progress we have made towards gender equality. It is also a day to recognise what still needs to be done and to create awareness about how we can play our part in making change for the better. IWD is celebrated across the globe in quite diverse ways, reflective of its global history which is a very interesting socio-political case study in itself! The first National Women’s Day was observed in the United States on 28 February 1909. Against the backdrop of WW1, women in Russia chose to protest and…