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Published: March 8, 2011 9:42 PM
By The Associated Press  EDITH M. LEDERER (Associated Press)

Quick ReadInternational Women's Day marks 100th anniversary with equality still a distant goal

Photo credit: AP | Egyptian women react after protesting men forced them out of Cairo's central Tahrir Square while they were celebrating International Women's Day, Tuesday, March 8, 2011. A protest by hundreds of Egyptian women demanding an end to sexual harassment and equal rights turned violent when men verbally abused and shoved the demonstrators, telling them that they should go home where they belong. (AP Photo)

Egyptian women demanding equal rights on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day were shoved by men who said they should go home where they belong. Congolese women asked their government to protect them from systematic rapes, and women in Croatia who lost their jobs accused the government of corruption.

But the centennial anniversary of the day established by socialist women to...

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