Denmark’s Crown Princess Mary and Princess Josephine mark International Women’s Day

Crown Princess Mary shared a personal story to the Danish Royal Family’s Instagram on International Women’s Day.

The story involves her youngest child, Princess Josephine, seeing a headline about International Women’s Day and wondering what it meant.

“She didn’t ask any further questions, so maybe my answer wasn’t a surprise to her. 

Maybe this is something she takes for granted, but it’s not like that for many other girls around the world. And the International Women’s Day has different significance depending on where in the world you live.

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7 Female Celebrities Empowering Women Globally

WINDSOR MILL, Maryland — From education to inequality, millions of people worldwide face struggles, especially those in developing countries. However, these global issues disproportionately affect women. Several female celebrities have utilized their platforms to raise awareness and address the issues that hinder the growth and development of women globally.

Emma Watson

This “Harry Potter” star is an advocate for global gender equality. Watson’s female-focused humanitarian efforts resulted in her appointment as a U.N. Women Goodwill Ambassador in 2014. Watson participated in education campaigns for girls in Bangladesh, Zambia and other rural parts of Africa. Watson is also involved in the HeForShe campaign. HeForShe is a U.N. movement that aims to mobilize men to fight for gender equality around the world. She also donated £1 million to the U.K. Justice and Equality Fund, an organization that fights sexual harassment around the U.K. 

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The Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen

Its importance and its achievements, however, will undoubtedly find expression in the activity of the women comrades of all countries who sent their representatives to the meeting. And this is what matters. If we examine the outcome of the proceedings in Copenhagen from this perspective, then the female comrades ought to be satisfied with it. The conference broadened and strengthened the relations between the socialist women of the various countries and here and there increased the common understanding of the central features of the movement. 

For some it shed clear light on the fundamental socialist attitude on many important questions, while for others it led to new, fruitful suggestions for practice. So it was that nobody went home from the meetings empty-handed, and those who had things to offer in one respect benefited in another. The appreciative and uplifting awareness of this interaction can only help to strengthen the bonds that unite the female comrades of all countries in their will to work as uniformly as possible in the service of the great, shared goal of socialism.

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