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March 8 - International Women's Day
International Women's Day - a holiday, celebrated annually on March 8, in some countries as "Women's Day."
Celebrated annually as the UN International Day for Women's Rights and International Peace. Historically, the festival has emerged as a day of solidarity of women in the struggle for equal rights and emancipation, but is currently invested in its meaning can vary up to worship the patriarchal image of women.
The beginning of XX century
March 8, 1908 at the call of the New York Social Democratic Women's Organization held a rally with slogans about equality for women. On this day, more than 15,000 women marched through the city, demanding shorter working hours and conditions of payment equal to men. In addition, demanded women's suffrage.
In 1909, the Socialist Party of America declared a national Women's Day which was celebrated until 1913 on the last Sunday of February. In 1909 it was 28 February. Later, in 1910, the delegates from the U.S. arrived in Copenhagen at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women, where they met with Clara Zetkin.
Clara Zetkin in 1910 at the Second International Socialist Women's Conference held in Copenhagen on August 27 in the Eighth Congress of the Second International, suggested the establishment of International Women's Day. It was understood that in this day women will hold rallies and marches, public involvement in their problems.
Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg, 1910
In 1911 the first International Women's Day was celebrated in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Switzerland on March 19, at the suggestion of a member of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany Ellen Greenberg, in commemoration of the March Revolution of 1848 in Prussia. In 1912, this day was celebrated in the same countries for 12 May. In 1913, women protested in France and Russia - March 2, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Netherlands - March 9, Germany - March 12. In 1914, the date was finally fixed: March 8. [Source not specified 190 days]
Until 1917, the total or partial right to vote were women of Australia, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland.
Soviet International Women's Day was popular in the world in the 1910s and 1920s, but then its popularity has diminished. For the first time, "March 8" in Russia was celebrated in 1913 in St. Petersburg, as a popular event in Western society.
In 1921, by decision of the 2nd Conference of the Communist women, it was decided to celebrate International Women's Day March 8, in memory of women's participation in a demonstration in Petrograd, March 8 (February 23, Old Style), 1917, as one of the events that preceded the February Revolution. [ 4].
Since 1966, in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on May 8, 1965 [5], the International Women's Day became a holiday and a day off. Gradually the festival in the Soviet Union had completely lost politically charged and bind to the struggle of women against discrimination (according to some points of view, a radical change in the meaning of the holiday in the public mind could be a greater or lesser extent, the result of a deliberate political leadership [6]), becoming a "day of Women "and gained modern features.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs.