LONDON: A boxing Barbie doll, ‘suffragette’ flashmob and Wikipedia edit-a-thon are among a host of quirky initiatives aimed at highlighting gender inequalities and overturning stereotypes on International Women's Day on March 8. In a year which has seen the birth of the #MeToo movement on sexual harassment and abuse, women around the world have been pushing for more rights and visibility. Only 17 per cent of biographies published on Wikipedia are about women, according to the United Nations' cultural agency Unesco, which is organising the event. A Barbie doll in the likeness of British Olympic boxing champion Nicola Adams, complete with "boxing gloves to shatter any glass ceiling", has been unveiled to mark International Women's Day. Other women role models getting the Barbie treatment include US Olympic snowboarding star Chloe Kim.

Source: New Strait Times March 08, 2018 04:07 UTC