International Women's Day - 8 March

The origin of International Women’s Day can be traced back in February 1908 started in New York. Thousands of women who worked in garment industry went on strike and marched in the city to protest their working condition. Which was poorly organized. They were in less echelons with low wage and sexually harassed.

The strikes took more than a year. Later on, a National Women’s Day was celebrated for the first time in U.S. in honor of the protest anniversary by Socialist Party of America.

After that, Clara Zetkin, a German campaigner and socialist, turned the day into international movement at the International Conference of Working Women in 1910. Then, her idea had spread throughout Europe.

The International women’s day was also honored in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland in 1911. There were more than one million women and men rallied campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination.

In 1914 just before World War I, After the discussions, International Women's Day was officially agreed to be marked annually on March 8. This remained the global date for International Women's Day ever since. After the WWI, Russian women began a strike for "bread and peace" in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers in World War. They continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.

Finally, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time by the United Nations in 1975.

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