Started over a century ago, International Women's Day celebrates the struggles experienced by women and makes a point to highlight these struggles and change the future for women and for the rest of the world. This year, many dignitaries and institutions celebrated the date and also various news outlets reported on how it is being celebrated around the world.

According to the International Women's Day website, the date has been observed since 1908 when women gathered of the streets of New York to march for shorter wages, higher wages and voting rights. Over time the idea developed into an official date, decreed in 1910 after the second meeting of the International Conference of Working Women.

This year the focus has turned to raising awareness of women's inequality worldwide. After more than a century the struggle remains the same. On Friday March 7, Hillary Clinton addressed the United Nations during that organization's commemoration of the date. According to Time magazine, Clinton remarked that equality for women "remains the great unfinished business of the 21st century." She added that no country, including the United States, had succeeded in implementing this.

Around the world women are marching and celebrating the date. In Sydney, Australia thousands of women marched for women's rights, according to The Guardian. One of the things the women were protesting was a new piece of legislature called "Zoe's Law," which would restrict abortions. The law prevents abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The law could potentially expose women to charges of criminal abuse when pregnant. Though the bill does not call a fetus a person, opponents of the law fear it could lead to that. "Foetal personhood is a classic tactic of the American anti-choice movement," said Gabe Kavanagh of the Women's Electoral Body at the rally.