International Women’s Day: Why is it celebrated on March 8?

The 8th of March marks Women’s Day around the world to remember the struggle for equality and the recognition and effective exercise of their rights.

celebrate day International Women’s Day On March 8th. Like every year, thousands of women will take to the streets, among other things, to continue the struggle for equality, as well as for the recognition and effective exercise of their rights.

International Women’s Day: Why is it celebrated on March 8?

International Women’s Day is celebrated because the 8th of March 1908 was celebrated in the history of labor and union struggle all over the world after 129 women died in a fire at a cotton factory in New York, United States, after declaring a permanent strike at their workplace.

International Women’s Day: What conflict led to this celebration?

The strike that day was aimed at reducing the working day to 10 hours and a salary equal to that of men doing the same activities. The factory was closed so workers could not concentrate, but those inside the building died.

On May 3 of that year, an action for Women’s Day was held in Chicago, a preamble on February 28, 1909, in New York, to celebrate for the first time the anniversary National Women’s Day.

International Women’s Day: its origin story

Finally, in 1910, the Second International Conference of Socialist Women took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The specific reason for this meeting was the universal suffrage of all women, and with a movement Clara Zetkin, the leader of the “20,000 Uprising”, officially declared March 8 as International Day of Working Womenin honor of the women who fell in the 1908 strike.

In 1977, The United Nations General Assembly officially declared March 8 as International Women’s Day. Then, in 2011, the centenary of the celebration took place, with the premise of gender equality and women’s empowerment (UN Women).