Judging from the underwhelming response to my previous post re International Women's Day, there's not much interest in this subject.  Which is pretty much how it is in this country, as Echidne of the Snakes says in this excellent post  (it's a March 8 entry, you may have to scroll down a little, i can't get the archive link to work) about the day, its history and celebration across the world yesterday.

Well, i'm interested, and this is my journal, so i continue with the subject.  with a link to Ms Magazine's winter issue listing of Fifty Women Who Made a Difference this past year.  It's a truly fascinating list of: "Movers and shakers, teens and grandmas, chess champ and golf pro, surgeon and artist, soldier and hugger -- these women, and more, changed our lives in the past year." 

A sampling of the list gives you:

 -Carrie and Mary Dann, Western Shoshone sisters in their 70's fighting government efforts to take away tribal lands and grazing rights.   
-Gurinda Chadha, the film director of one of my favorite movies of the year, "Bend it Like Beckham."  
-Shoshona Johnson, Army specialist and former POW, the first African-American woman ever taken prisoner in combat, less famous than Jessica Lynch because not blonde.  
-Samantha Power, Author and Academic, currently a lecturer at Harvard's JFK School of Government, author of A Problem from Hell:  America and the Age of Genocide; I've seen her on Moyers' NOW several times and she's dynamite.
-Molly Ivins, Columnist and author, my favorite Texan, voice of good-ol-girl reason, sanity and humor.

A mere five from the list of fifty - check it out, if you're a woman it should make you proud.  If you're not, well, hey, we hear about the guys all the time.  It's Women's History Month, our moment in the sun.