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LOCAL PERSPECTIVE: Editorial

A Celebration of International Women’s Day

Thursday, March 8, 2018

From Beijing, China. Vao Jinfeng, is a 30-year-old Deputy Chief of Commando under the Beijing Railway Police Force. She is the first woman who is training the new male members, instructing them on physical training, shooting, comprehensive skills and other subjects. Kudos to Vao Jingeng and much respect to her.
*Photo AP

These four female pilots leaving their ship at the four engine school at Lockbourne are members of a group of WASPS who have been trained to ferry the B-17 Flying Fortresses. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Willa Beatrice Brown is a woman of firsts. She was the first African-American Woman to: earn her pilot’s license in the US. and run for US Congress, to be an officer in the Civil Air Patrol and the first woman in the United States to have both a pilot’s license and a mechanic’s license. She was a lifelong advocate for gender and racial equality in flight and in the military. Source Wikepedia

Canadian woman pilot
*Photo AP

For a stay at home mom with two children. The total salary of all those jobs should be roughly $118.899 for all the work they do. Source: Salary.com *Photo courtesy of Crystal Craig—Dreamstime.com

Let’s not forget the women who are still being oppressed in the world and those who are fighting for them and those who lost their lives or their freedom in this battle. Their struggles continue and let’s support those who are battling for them. *Photo AP
C.M. & K.M.

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