International Women's Day. Why "March 8" specifically?
International Women’s Day is an annual celebration, celebrated on March 8 of each year, and it is held to signify public respect, appreciation, and love for women for their economic, political, and social achievements.
In 1856, thousands of women went out to protest in the streets of New York City against the inhuman conditions under which they are forced to work, and the march succeeded in prompting political officials to put the problem of working women on daily agendas, and the date of this day dates back when this scene was repeated on March 8 in the year 1908 When 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding voting rights, and fewer working hours
For the first time, International Women's Day was celebrated on March 8, 1909, in America, and it was known as National Women's Day in the United States of America after the American Socialist Party appointed this day to celebrate women as a reminder of the workers' strike in the garment industry in New York, where women demonstrated to condemn the harsh working conditions.
The idea for the day came when a woman named Clara Zetkin, leader of the "Women's Office" of the Social Democratic Party in Germany presented the idea of International Women's Day, in 1910, and suggested that every country celebrate women on one day each year to press for their demands, and indeed more than 100 agreed A woman from 17 countries put forward her proposal and formed the DAW
In 1911, it was celebrated for the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland on March 19, and then it was decided to set March 8 in 1913, and it was celebrated from that day until then, and the United Nations recognized this day in 1975
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