Newscoma

Here we go:

• This is scary, I mean really.
• The Pentagon is deploying more troops.
• Short and Fat says this: “I know that TV and magazines send my kid the signal that if ‘you ain’t sexy, you ain’t nuthin’. It seems the market for women’s professional sports is doing the same thing.”
• A Case of Bad Ink is an interesting column about the journalists involved in the Libby scandal.
• Calvin Klein releases “technosexual” perfume. All-righty then.
• Help Kathy T. and Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital out.
• The photo is from My Confined Space, and I swear that’s where I would love to be right now.

Today is International Women’s Day.

In a study compiled by the British government, here are some examples of what women have to go through, in case you didn’t know :

* Two-thirds of the world’s 800 million illiterate adults are women as girls are not seen as worth the investment, or are busy collecting water or firewood or doing other domestic chores.

* Two million girls aged from five to 15 join the commercial sex market every year.

* Domestic violence kills and injures more people in the developing world than war, cancer or traffic accidents.

* Seventy per cent of the world’s poorest people are women.

* Violence against women causes more deaths and disabilities among women aged 15 to 44 than cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war.

* Women produce half the world’s food, but own less than two per cent of the land.

* Of the more than one billion people living in extreme poverty, 70 per cent are women.

* Almost a third of the world’s women are homeless or live in inadequate housing.

* Half of all murdered women are killed by their current or former husbands or partners.

* Every minute a woman dies as a result of pregnancy complications.

* Women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, yet earn only a tenth of its income.

Just take a moment to think about it throughout the day.

I just thought you might want to know and there is much more over at the link.

H/T to Americablog