International Women's Day

08 March 2013

International Women's Day

More recently, we have given you some ideas for creative gifts for March 8 , but today we want to find out where the tradition of celebrating Women's Day.

March 8, 1857 workers of shoe and garment factories organized a demonstration in New York. The title of this demonstration was to "march of empty pots." Women's demands were: the introduction of 10 hour day, instead of 16 hours, acceptable working conditions and salary equal muzhchskoy. The same day the women's unions began to appear, and for the first time women were given the right to vote.

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Clara Zetkin in 1910 at the International Conference in Copenhagen, proposed to hold an annual celebration March 8 - "International Day of Solidarity in the fight for women's economic, social and political equality." It was sort of a call to all women in the world to fight for equality.

March 19, 1911 - the festival is celebrated for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

March 2, 1913 in St. Petersburg on the streets of Poltava, in the building Kalashnikova Grain Exchange was first celebrated International Women's Day.

March 8, 1914 for the first time it has been celebrated on this date International Women's Day. Since it fell on a Sunday and was not a working day.

February 23 (March 8), 1917, International Women's Day Neva thread factory workers took to the streets of St. Petersburg with the slogan "Bread and Peace." Workers demanded to return the men to the war and provide the city with bread and other food. Subsequently, a meeting has grown to mass strikes of workers throughout the city and multiple riots.

On May 8, 1965 in the Soviet Union that day was not a working day. Every year on this day celebrations sums up the state to the public on the implementation of state policy on women. But over time, International Women's Day began to lose its political character.

Today, March 8 is the holiday of spring and light! On this day we give give a tribute to the traditional role of women as wives, mothers, girlfriends. In many countries there is a women's day, but not all of it falls on March 8.

And how do you intend to mark March 8?

International Women's Day Official UN Themes

Year UN Theme

1996 Celebrating the Past, Planning for the Future

1997 Women and the Peace Table

1998 Women and Human Rights

1999 World Free of Violence Against Women

2000 Women Uniting for Peace

2001 Women and Peace: Women Managing Conflicts

2002 Afghan Women Today: Realities and Opportunities

2003 Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals

2004 Women and HIV/AIDS

2005 Gender Equality Beyond 2005; Building a More Secure Future

2006 Women in Decision-making

2007 Ending Impunity for Violence Against Women and Girls

2008 Investing in Women and Girls

2009 Women and Men United to End Violence Against Women and Girls

2010 Equal Rights, Equal Opportunities: Progress for All

2011 Equal Access to Education, Training, and Science and Technology: Pathway to Decent Work for Women

2012 Empower Rural Women, End Poverty and Hunger

2013 A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women