Today is International Women’s Day!

Today is International Women’s Day!
What exactly is International Women’s Day (IWD) for? What does it commemorate and how should we mark it?
 
Read how Sara Jones and Maija Spurina (Working Group 3) tackle these questions in their essay ‘From state propaganda to populist marketing ploy: The slippery meaning of International Women’s Day’.
 

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