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. Only 17% 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. They will perform a choral work called the Pankhurst Anthem, written by the suffragette's great-granddaughter Helen Pankhurst and composed by Lucy Pankhurst, who is also related.

Source: dna March 07, 2018 17:59 UTC