Today, we celebrate International Women’s Day, a world free of discrimination, bias, and stereotypes. No matter the long way still ahead of us, every single day presents us with a new opportunity to take action and work collectively towards a gender-equal world.

Derhy Enterprises want to shine some light on many remarkable female members and their achievements to be shared with our global readers how they’ve managed to face obstacles and break down barriers throughout their personal lives and careers.

Our members come from across the globe with different skills and backgrounds, but for all their differences, they share one trait: our international members each work ceaselessly in their own ways to achieve success.

What is International Women’s Day 2022?

Taking place on Tuesday, March 8th, 2022, International Women’s Day is a celebration of the achievements made by women throughout history. Today, Derhy Enterprises appreciates past heroines’ work across social, economic, cultural, and political sectors. The day also represents the continued fight for equality to eliminate discrimination and bias between genders.

For International Women’s Day 2022, the theme is #BreakTheBias, a global call to arms to tackle discrimination, celebrate our differences and forge an equal future.

When was it first celebrated?

The battle for gender equality was raging in the early 1900s, with women campaigning for the right to better pay, shorter working hours, and suffrage. The earliest form of International Women’s Day was celebrated in 1909, linked with the Socialist Party of America, and called National Women’s Day.

Observed across the United States, the day was celebrated by places such as Austria, Denmark, Switzerland, and Germany in 1911 before being celebrated by the United Nations in 1975. The day was also formerly celebrated on the last Sunday of February, before it was moved to its permanent date of March 8th.

Katie Melissa

Katie Melissa Ryan is one of our “Inspiring Success stories.” She challenges investors to acquire specific skills. Katie shared with us how to create and build a thriving business. Katie Melissa Ryan is an internet entrepreneur who has created e-commerce stores generating up to six figures per month. She began her journey in entrepreneurship modeling for local brands, then discovered and studied online business. Her first successful venture was selling on her Amazon store two years ago at 22. Read more about her here.

Julia Yudina

Julia is an actress and one of Pop culture’s Rising Stars. She epitomizes the benefits of leaving your comfort zone and listening to your heart to achieve anything you want in life. “Listen to your heart, don’t lie to yourself, don’t show up — usually, lack of talent and self-esteem. Rely on yourself! Try to get as many skills as you can. Believe !!!” Read more about her here.

Liz Carmouche

Liz presents an “Inspiring Success story” on why discipline is key to success. Liz is an American MMA fighter who competed in the first-ever women’s UFC fight. She is a U.S. Marine Corp Veteran, the UFC’s most decorated ex-military athlete, and the first openly gay UFC fighter. She didn’t always find it easy to achieve success. You can find out more about her here.

Christine Peters

Christine is one of our “Exceptional women Leaders.” Christine Peters has worked for several Motion Picture Studios. Including Warner Bros., Paramount, and Sony, to name a few. Writing and Consulting are a priority in Christine’s ongoing achievements.
She produced one of the biggest Rom-Coms, “How to Lose a Guy in 10 days,” still streaming on all networks. Her newest interests include Crypto “NFTs” for finance. In 2013, she got a recommendation from Sumner M. Redstone, the founder and chairman of Viacom. Christine talks exhaustively about why you should never lose your focus in her Interview.

Raina Kumra

Raina is one of our exceptional women in technology and movement builders. She is concurrently an early-stage technology investor with The Fund, the founder of Spicewell, a functional foods company, and CEO of Juggernaut, a digital and organizational transformation bureau helping organizations be more human. As a technology ethics advocate, she created the EthicalOS framework (which has been taught in universities the world over and downloaded over 750,00 times) and an accompanying course on LinkedIn Learning to help makers, investors, and consumers get up to speed on data ethics and mitigate unintended consequences of new technologies. She currently serves as an Advisor to Google X, Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory. She also helps a select group of climate and technology funds with their fundraiser, holding both her Series 63 and 82 licenses. She talks more about her journey into tech in her Interview.

*Happy International Women’s Day * Join us and get inspired!

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