International Women’s Day 2013

"The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights" Gloria Steinem

Today mums, aunties, sisters, daughters, wives and grandmothers across the globe are celebrating what marks the 100th International Women’s Day. Here at Psychology Associates we wanted to take time to consider some of the great female figures who are inspirations to us.

Camila Batmanghelidjh is a psychotherapist and founder of The Kids Company. For 17 years Camila has lead her organisation fighting to help and support vulnerable children across London who are faced with emotional and mental health difficulties, homeless, sustained trauma and substance misuse to name just a few. As psychologists we experience too often some of the vulnerable situations which children and young people are sadly exposed to – Camila works with such energy and passion to remove children from these cruel surroundings and is an inspiration.

A second female figure who has been at forefront many of our minds of late is Malala Yousufzai. Malala is a Pakistani school girl who was shot by the Taliban in October 2012 for advocating girls' education. Malala has become renown around the world for her levels of courage and bravery in campaigning for female rights for education, a basic human right for most of us. As another inspirational figure Malala continues to hold her beliefs that young women in Pakistan should be able to pursue their dreams of education despite being a victim of the Taliban.

Take a few minutes this afternoon to find out how women across the world are celebrating:

http://www.internationalwomensday.com/