International Woman's Day

March 8th is International Woman's Day.

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As a female Russian friend put it to me many years go, it's the day American women won the right to go into the mines and the day Russian women won the right to not have to go into the mines.

By Rich Wilson (not verified) on 08 Mar 2010 #permalink