WOMEN’S DAY: Happy International Women’s Day!

This year’s theme is Be Bold for Change. The International Women’s Day campaign is calling everyone — not just women — to take “bold pragmatic action to accelerate gender parity.”

Learn more at the website internationalwomensday.com.

On a similar note, two faculty members at St. Bonaventure University are celebrating the achievements of women for Women’s History Month this March.

According to the university, Dr. Pauline Hoffman and Kimberly DeSimone “have developed some creative bracketology that they hope will spur conversations and knowledge about some of the most trailblazing women in history.”

The “March into Women’s History” bracket is crafted like an NCAA basketball tournament bracket with 64 women known for accomplishments in the following categories: STEM, business, government and advocacy.

The public is invited to vote on their favorites. We missed Round 1 voting — voting closed Tuesday in the first round — but the bracket will be narrowed from 64 to 32, and the public will be able to vote in Round 2 beginning today.

Round 2 voting will end March 16.

Readers can follow the project — along with brief bios of the candidates — at marchintowomenshistory.wordpress.com or see the whole bracket at www.sbu.edu/docs/default-source/About-News-Events/march-madness-bracket.pdf?sfvrsn=2.

The winner will be announced on March 30.

According to the university, “Their goal is to start a conversation: They’ve established social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to encourage dialogue.”

As Hoffmann put it, “Tell us about who we’ve missed. Tell us why you voted as you did. And tell us how these women have had an impact on your own life.”