International Women’s Day: Inspiring songs to celebrate women!

Today – Saturday, 8 March 2014 – we celebrate International’s Women’s Day!

This year’s theme – Inspiring Change – is directly aligned with the work we do at Happiness Weekly and so we are writing a special blog to celebrate. The theme “calls for challenging the status quo for women’s equality and vigilance inspiring positive change,” the website says.

Our next challenge was figuring out what to blog to link Inspiring Change to International Women’s Day. We could talk about celebrity women – such as Oprah – who inspire change, or discuss how women in politics and positions of power have inspired changed, point out some great female ambassadors who are doing great things…

After long thought we decided instead to create a song list to help empower women to make the changes they seek. Groupies and love song dedications aside, below is Happiness Weekly’s empowering song-list to celebrate women:

Independent Woman – Destiny’s Child

So Beautiful – Superchick

Sisters are doing it for themselves – Eurythmics

I refuse to be lonely – Phyllis Hyman

Beautiful – Christina Aguilera

Woman’s World – Cher

Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys

I am woman – Helen Reddy

Man I feel like a woman – Shania Twain

I’m every woman – Whitney Houston

Run the world (Girls) – Beyonce

I Am Woman – Jordin Sparks

This One’s For The Girls – Martina McBride

Born This Way- Lady Gaga

Just a girl – No Doubt

You Gotta Be – Des’ree

Women of Intention – Deap Vally

A Woman’s Worth – Alicia Keys

I am beautiful – Candice Glover

Some girls – Madonna

Mrs Robinson – Simon and Garfunkel

Go Girl – Ciara

Lady Marmalade – Christina Aguilera

I’m a woman – Peggy Lee

Who says – Selena Gomez

Womanizer – Britney Spears

If I were your woman – Gladys Knight & the Pips

Only girl in the world – Rihanna

Your woman – White Town

My girl – Temptations

Brave – Sara Bareillies

The greatest love of all – Whitney Houston

Girls just want to have fun – Cindy Lauper

Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix

Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison

Video – Indie Arie

Big girls don’t cry – Fergie

Feeling Good – Jennifer Hudson

Survivor – Destiny’s Child

Proud – Heather Small