The permanent collection at Little Rock’s Esse Purse Museum is What’s Inside: A History of Women and Handbags 1900-1999.

I touched on the theme of a better working world for women for International Women’s Day 2016. My question then is the same as it is now. In the more than three decades since I took the oath and went off to boot camp, have women serving in the US Navy made any great strides?

For International Women’s Day this year, I wanted to write a long post about the women in my life. The women that have guided and inspired me; collaborated and conspired with me; helped me, consoled me or lent a sympathetic ear;

In 2002 a young woman stepped up to the podium of the oldest and one of the most beautiful Opera Houses in Europe, the San Carlo Theater. Certainly, a hushed silence must have washed over the crowd as they waited for her arm to raise, the music to begin.

Commemorated March 8th every year for the past one hundred years, International Women’s Day honors women and their accomplishments and it continues its 100-year-old year old campaign for women’s rights.