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Strata Salon: International Women's Day
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March 7, 2015
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3:32Now PlayingInternational Women’s Day has become a celebration of women’s achievements in politics, business, and the arts. But believe it or not, it began with American socialism and Eastern European communism.
The day was first declared by the American Socialist Party in 1909. In 1917, it actually played a role in setting into motion the events that would become Russia’s October Revolution. Socialist leaders used International Women’s Day ostensibly to highlight their commitment to gender equity—a commitment that resulted only in equal misery for everyone involved.
Contrary to its socialist origins, though, over one-hundred years of evidence since the first International Women’s Day tells us that free markets are the single best solution to inequality, gender or otherwise.
There is no better time to note these facts than on International Women’s Day. A celebration that was once simple communist propaganda should be repurposed to celebrate the forces that actually lift people, all people, out of poverty and inequality.
Because in the end, the data suggest that equality doesn’t come at the end of the government’s gun, but at the end of the free market’s handshake.
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