We don't have a groundswell in a critical mass of countries that have allowed young people to take their rightful place. So something has to change i… - Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

Well, it was women in the labour movement in the 1900s that gave us this day. They were calling for bread; they were calling for better working conditions and they were calling for peace. Guess what? We are calling for the same things today, in different ways. We are rededicating ourselves to the struggles of today. Today, for instance, we are calling for decent work because women continue to be at the bottom of the pyramid of economic activity and the work and the jobs that they do continue to be informal and to be low paid.

We also know that companies that involve women at a high level and engage them fully are much more competitive and profitable. As a matter of fact, amongst Fortune 500 companies, it has been argued that such companies are 34 per cent more competitive than their counterparts when it comes to returning profits to shareholders.

The moral of the story there is that it's important to be involved and be engaged. Being involved also showed to me the importance of having men as part and parcel of the women's struggle.