History Of International Women’s Day
History
The first national Women’s Day was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United
States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. In August 1910, an
International Women’s Conference was organized to precede the general meeting
of the Socialist Second International in Copenhagen. Inspired in part by the
American socialists, German Socialist Luise Zietz proposed the establishment of
an annual ‘International Woman’s Day’ (singular) and was seconded by Clara
Zetkin, although no date was specified at that conference. Delegates (100 women
from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights,
including suffrage, for women. The following year, on 18 March, 1911, IWD was
marked for the first time, by over a million
people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian
Empire
alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on
the Ringstrasse and carried banners honouring the martyrs of the Paris
Commune. Women demanded………………………………
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