HAPPY WOMAN`S DAY

HAPPY WOMAN`S DAY

8/3/2019

HAPPY WOMAN`S DAY

Today is International Women’s Day, which means women and men across the world will be working together with the aim of ending gender based discrimination. There will be events held across the world, as well as a worldwide conversation on the issues women face. Lets take a look at the history of the day, and how it’s celebrated globally. When was the first International Women’s Day?

The earliest recorded observance of Women’s Day was on 28 February, 1909, in New York, and was organised by the Socialist Party of America. Then, in 1910 an International Women’s Socialist Conference was held in Denmark, and the following year IWD was observed in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

The movement began as part of the fight for worldwide women’s suffrage, and the day came to the UK in 1914. Sylvia Pankhurst was arrested on her way to speak at Trafalgar Square at a protest on 8 March that year.

Its celebration continued in many parts of the world after this, but the United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day in the International Women’s Year, 1975.