First Women's Day was in 1911

-Women use 20,000 words a day while men only use 7,000
-530,000 women die in pregnancy or childbirth each year
-Women own around only 1% of the world's land
-Women control $14 trillion in assets and this should grow to $22 trillion over next 10 years
-Only in Japan and Peru are women more active in starting a business than men
-Women spend more time researching before they invest than men do
-Women do two-thirds of the world's work but receive only 10% of the world's income
-56% of women who voted supported Obama compared to only 49% of men voted for Obama
-Until 20 years ago there had never been more than 5% women MPs globally
-Benazir Bhutto was the first woman prime minister of a muslim country (assassinated 27/12/07)