Model feebee poses as part of art installation “Dazzle room” made by artist Shigeki Matsuyama at Room 32 fashion and design exhibition in Tokyo, Friday, February 19, 2016. Matsuyama's installation features a strong contrast of black and white, which he learned from dazzle camouflage used mainly in World War I, in Tokyo, Friday, Feb. 19, 2016. (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama/AP Photo)

A couple looks at their flooded street from behind their home's window in La Plata, in Argentina's Buenos Aires province, where at least 35 people were killed by flooding overnight, on April 3, 2013. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)

A demonstrator argues with policewomen after she turned up her shirt and was taken out from a protest to demand the resignation of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, on March 13, 2016 in Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo. Protesters, many draped in the Brazilian national flag, poured into the streets of Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro on Sunday at the start of mass demonstrations seeking to bring down President Dilma Rousseff. Authorities in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city and an opposition stronghold, said they were bracing for a million protesters. (Photo by Miguel Schincariol/AFP Photo)

Ethnic Miao men wearing traditional masks smear dust on a woman's face to wish her good luck during local celebration event for Lunar New Year in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China, February 16, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Visitors crowd an artificial wave swimming pool at a tourist resort to escape the summer heat in Daying county of Suining, Sichuan province, China, July 11, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Wednesday March 8 marks International Women's Day, with festivals, concerts and exhibitions among the numerous events planned around the world to celebrate the achievements of women in society. The annual event has been held since the early 1900s and traditionally promotes a different theme each year, with this year's edition calling on people to #BeBoldForChange and push for a more gender-inclusive working world. Reuters photographers have been speaking with women in a range of professions around the world about their experiences of gender inequality. Here: Yolaina Chavez Talavera, 31, a firefighter, poses for a photograph in front of a truck at a fire station in Managua, Nicaragua, February 22, 2017. (Photo by Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)

Members of the New People's Army (NPA) female guerrillas perform a cultural show during the release of a Philippines army soldier in Sugbongcogon town, Misamis Oriental, southern Philippines, November 20, 2015. NPA spokesperson Allan Juanito warned that they will seize more soldiers to exchange them with the government as "Prisoners of war". (Photo by Froilan Gallardo/Reuters)

Members of the Royal Navy respond to a simulated fire in a Vanguard-class submarine control room training facility at Clyde naval base in Faslane, Scotland on January 21, 2016. (Photo by Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)