Happy International Women's Day!

Here's wishing all our female members a Happy International Women's Day! You are all fantastic role-models. Very proud of you all.

I hope you enjoy this song which was composed and performed by my friends' daughter-in-law.

You can buy the song on iTunes for 79p and all proceeds will go to charities supporting education for women and girls.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/id1453409336?app=itunes

You can also read more about the project at :

http://www.joannaforbeslestrange.com/twenty-first-century-woman-song

Twenty-first-century woman song lyrics

© Lyrics by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange

© Music by Alexander L’Estrange and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange

A new day is on the horizon

And when the sun rises up to brighten that day

It will be because for many generations

Women took a risk for the right to have their say

We are raising the leaders of the future

We need to teach them well, or how will they know?

To press for change, to stand up and be counted

We’ve come so far, but there’s still a long way to go.

So what does it take to be a twenty-first-century woman?

‘Cos we need to make a stand for the twenty-first-century woman.

We are fighting for an end to all injustice

So every girl can learn to speak her truth without fear

We fight for parity in pay and education

For equal opportunities in every career

We must be brave and we must keep on believing

No more pretending we don’t mind ‘cos those days are gone

Now’s the time to spread the word across all nations

No-one can silence us and still the truth marches on

So what does it take to be a twenty-first-century woman?

‘N’ make no mistake: we stand for the twenty-first-century woman!

We are doctors, politicians, we’re conductors, musicians

We are poets, we are writers, we are even fire fighters

We are sisters, we are strivers, we are cancer survivors

We are actors, we are dancers, we have questions and we have answers

We are bishops, we are preachers, we are nuns, we are teachers

We are cleaners, we are carers, some of us are child bearers

We’re composers, we’re presenters, we are authors, inventors

And we won’t give up the fight until we have equal rights!

We are surgeons, we’re opticians, we are nurses, beauticians

We are trainers, entertainers, we are tireless campaigners

We are bankers, we are bakers, we are wives and home-makers

The list is endless, and that’s the way it should be

Till every girl can grow up to be who she wants to be

And that is what it takes to be a twenty-first-century woman!