Annie Lennox speaks with a CARE activist.EQUALS is a partnership of leading charities brought together by Annie Lennox to celebrate the International Women’s Day centenary. Together the EQUALS coalition will be stepping up the call for a more equal world and prompting a big debate about what inequality looks like today.

Read on to find out more about the EQUALS coalition and how you can get involved

So, are men and women equal yet?
And if not, when we will know?
How will we get there?
What would being equals, equal?

Make no mistake, these questions are tricky. They’re questions that people have been asking for hundreds of years. Questions that have changed lives and the course of history, that have been both fought for and battled against.

There is plenty around to tell us that these questions still need answering. Like the fact that women hold just 19% of the world’s parliamentary seats. That 75% of civilians killed in war are women and children. Even in the UK 30,000 women lose their job every year when they’re pregnant. Doesn’t this tell us that we’ve got a long way to go?

So for this year’s International Women’s Day, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a day created to demand greater equality between men and women, we need people to really think about these questions.

Whether you’re a feminist, a mumist, a friendist or a bloke-who-gives-a-damnist, we want you to share your vision of what an equal world could look like. We want everyone talking, debating and hopefully doing something about these questions, the ones that women around the world still desperately need answering.

Visit the EQUALS site to find out how you can get involved!

The EQUALS coalition comprises ActionAid, Amnesty International, Care International UK, The Fawcett Society, Oxfam, Plan International, Save the Children, The White Ribbon Alliance For Safe Motherhood, Women’s Aid and Women for Women International. It is supported by an evolving partnership of organisations, including 1Goal, Dance4Life, Merlin, Mumsnet, Object, One World Action, UKFeminista, VSO, WomanKind and Women for Refugee Women, and is collaborating with arts partners such as Birds Eye View, Brightwide, Britdoc/Good Screenings, Funny Women and the Southbank Centre.