The International Women’s Day
8th of March is the day we celebrate women around the world! The International Women’s Day is a symbol of the fight for women’s rights thru out the globe.
Up to the year 1910, many women worked the factories but they were paid considerably less than men. In 1908, 15.000 women protested in New York, asking for better working hours, better wages and the right to vote. One year later, the first National Women’s Day was celebrated on the 28th of February.
In 1910, in Copenhagen, during the Second International Conference of Working Women, Clara Zetkin presented the idea of an International Women’s Day, a celebration to be held on the same day in every country. The proposal was approved, unanimously.
The date of march 8th was first set in 1914, when women across Europe marched against the war.
The year 1975 was declared by UN the International Women’s Year. It was the year many nations started to embrace this very special celebration.
In 1982, in Iran, women engaged in one of the most courageous gestures of their lives: they took off their veil for the entire day.
Nowadays, Women’s Day is an official holiday in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Georgia, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Laos, Madagascar, Republic of Moldavia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Nepal, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Zambia. But it is also celebrated in Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania and Latvia.
Starting with 2010, Romanians celebrate Mother’s Day on the first Sunday of May.