Commemorating International Women's Day (40 images)

A lone woman keeps cover under her umbrella in the stands of one of Roland Garros' main tennis courts as continued downpours interrupted the matches on the third day of the French Open tennis tournament in Paris, May 27, 2008. (UPI Photo/Eco Clement)

Demonstrators carry signs while marching on the Memorial Bridge into Washington from Arlington, VA on International Women's Day March 8, 2010. The "Join Me on the Bridge" march and rally was held to raise awareness of struggles women world-wide face and to support the Enough Project helping women in the Congo. UPI/Madeline Marshall

Commander Eileen Collins waves to spectators after landing at Kennedy Space.Center's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) aboard a T-38 jet aircraft, July 16, 1999 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. She and other crew members Pilot Jeffrey S. Ashby and Mission Specialists Steven A. Hawley (Ph.D.), Catherine G. "Cady" Coleman (Ph.D.) and Michel Tognini of France, with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), are arriving for pre-launch activities. Collins is the first woman to serve as mission commander. This is her third Shuttle flight, set for July 20. The primary mission of STS-93 is the release of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which.will allow scientists from around the world to study some of the most distant, powerful and dynamic objects in the universe.

A woman walks out from under a giant tarpaulin set up to shelter badly housed people in Paris, November 27, 2007. Dozens of badly housed people have been squatting on "rue de la Banque" in the center of the French capital in a bid to press the government to find solutions to house poor families who can no longer afford to rent a home following a boom in real estate prices these past years. (UPI Photo/Eco Clement)