Poverty has a woman's face

Published March 10, 2010

How much has changed in the course of a century?

One-hundred years after Clara Zetkin, the pioneering socialist, convinced the world community to declare March 8 as International Women's Day, we are still shamefully failing some of the most dispossessed and disenfranchised people in our societies: women.

What priorities continue to allow half a million women each year—one every minute—to...