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This International Women’s Day, celebrate Henrietta Leavitt, who took us beyond the stars and into the galaxies.

From March 9-20 more than 8,600 representatives of some 1,100 non-governmental organizations will participate in United Nations’ 59th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Their primary mission is to evaluate the progress in implementing the 20-year Platform for Action adopted at the historic 1995 Conference on Women in Beijing. Women advocates charge progress in implementing the Action Plan has been slow and uneven and major obstacles remain.

For 50 years, 83 year-old ‘Mathabiso Mosala has been a leader of the Lesotho National Council of Women, a coalition of women’s organizations that has tirelessly advocated for women’s rights in Lesotho, including winning Lesotho’s 1995 ratification of the Convention of the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Lesotho government’s 2006 passage of the Legal Capacity of Married Person’s Act, which gave women the right to own and manage property.

Dissent contributor Timothy Shenk interviews noted historian Jill Lepore about her new book The Secret History of Wonder Woman. The book reveals that Wonder Woman, which launched in 1941, was actually inspired by the suffragist feminists and birth control activists of the 1910s and was later an inspiration for women who were involved in women’s liberation movement in the 1960s and the early ’70s. According to Lepore, Wonder Woman is a missing link.

For 50 years, 83 year-old ‘Mathabiso Mosala has been a leader of the Lesotho National Council of Women, a coalition of women’s organizations that has tirelessly advocated for women’s rights in Lesotho, including winning Lesotho’s 1995 ratification of the Convention of the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women and the Lesotho government’s 2006 passage of the Legal Capacity of Married Person’s Act, which gave women the right to own and manage property.

Reader Comments - International Women's Day; Cecily McMillan; Ukraine; Venezuela; Are Unions Necessary?; Gov. Christie and Bridgegate; What the Hell Is Barack Obama's Presidency For?; War in Iraq; Announcements - Dignity in Action -San Francisco -Mar 8; Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Commemoration -New York - Mar 25; New book - Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress; Today in History - Supreme Court rules in Dred Scott - March 6, 1857