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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