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10 reasons why it's great to be a woman

Celebrate International Women's Day with a fun look at feminine strengths.

By Carlye Malchuk

March 8 of each year marks International Women's Day. Established in 1977 by the United Nations, it's a day to celebrate how far the women's movement has come and focus on the work that remains -- work that'll lead us to a world in which opportunity is presented to all, without bias.

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." -- Marie Curie, 20th Century Nobel Prize winning scientist.

While International Women's Day serves as a reminder of what must be done on behalf of women's rights, there are many reasons to celebrate the female spirit. Neither our hardships, nor our virtues should be ignored.

In honour of ladies everywhere, here are 10 reasons why it's great to be a woman:

10. We have the best of both worlds
A woman can be tough or gentle, strong or subdued. We can go on a 10-kilometre hike and, the same day, attend an event wearing a little black dress with strappy sandals. What's the best part of having so many choices? Not having to stick with just one.

9. We can laugh when we're sad, and cry when we're happy
Some say a woman's emotions are her greatest weaknesses, but they're her greatest strengths.

8. We are the ultimate multi-taskers
A woman can keep house, keep her career on track and keep going. As internationally renowned author Jean Shinoda Bolen wrote: "women are experienced in looking after the children and fragile elders, cleaning up, setting the house in order, being frugal with resources, putting food on the table, maintaining peace in the family, and staying on good terms with the neighbours." And that's in our down time!

7. We can always find a new face in the makeup bag
A woman's appearance can be her greatest ally and her most feared enemy, often in the course of a day. Yet no matter how we think we look, our masterful skills with a makeup brush and natural radiance can produce a wonder of the world.

"Curve: The loveliest distance between two points." -- Mae West, American film legend.

6. Our beauty is second only to our strength
It has been written that a woman grieving a loss will find strength even when she thinks there is no strength left. Across the country and around the world, women who have lost loved ones courageously take up the cause, hoping to ensure their tragedy doesn't happen again.

One of North America's best-known charities is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). With American and Canadian chapters, MADD was founded in 1980 by Candy Lightner, who took up the fight against drunk driving after her 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver.

5. We are the champions
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, Canadian athletes had a strong showing. Stronger yet were the female Canadian athletes, who brought home 16 of our 24 medals, including Cindy Klassen who won a record five medals in one Olympics.
4. We are global peacekeepers
Mother's Day has come to mean a day of flowers and cards and warm, fuzzy messages. But in 1870, Julia Ward Howe had a different idea. Howe, who wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic, was devastated by the destruction and death in the aftermath of the American Civil War. With war beginning again in Europe, Howe wrote the original Mother's Day Proclamation. She called on women around the world to join together and find means to bring peace to the world "in the name of womanhood and of humanity."

3. Our support system rivals any in the world -- our girlfriends
Any woman with close girlfriends knows how valuable they are. As our confidantes, friends, sources of encouragement and reality checks, they are our ultimate support systems.

2. The unbreakable bond between a mother and her child
Becoming a mother is an indescribable experience and although Arnold Schwarzenegger tried it in the 1994 comedy Junior, women alone experience the joy and blessing of childbirth.

"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -- Elizabeth Stone, 19th century feminist, institutionalized by her family for holding different religious beliefs.

1. We can make change happen
Many of us in developed nations have equal rights and freedoms because women of decades -- and centuries -- past diligently fought for them. But for many, equality remains a dream.

A United Nations report stated "women constitute half of the world's population, perform nearly two thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's property."
But this is changing.

Every day, more women join the cause of creating global equality, ensuring the world they pass on to their children will be better than the one their mothers passed on to them.

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." -- Helen Keller, a deaf and blind woman who became a role model for millions.