Why we celebrate Women’s Day.?

Here Coming the International Women’s Day….
We should know why we celebrate Women’s Day..

Women’s Day has been originated from the activities of labor movement in America.
Earlier National Women’s Day is celebrated on February 28, 1909 in New York, organized by the ‘Socialist Party of America’ at the suggestion of Theresa Malkiel.

Theresa Malkiel was a Russian-born American labor activist, suffragist, and educator. She was the first women to rise from factory work to leadership in the Socialist party. As a head of Woman’s National Committee of the Socialist Party of America , she established annual women’s day, which after known as International Day across the Europe. In 1909 , garment workers strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.

In August 1910, an International Socialist Women’s Conference was organized a meeting of the Socialist Second International in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired from the American socialist, German Socialist Luise Zietz proposed the annual women’s day at international level. Idea was supported by German socialist and later communist leader Clara Zetkin and 100 women across the 17 countries. Idea was to promote the women’s right including the suffrage for women(Right to Vote).

1911 As a result of the Copenhagen initiative, International Women’s Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded women’s rights to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job. Women all across the world are fighting for their rights.

In 1913 Russian women observed their first International Women’s Day on the last Saturday in February.
In 1914 International Women’s Day was held on March 8 in Germany. The 1914 observance of the Day in Germany was dedicated to women’s right to vote, which German women did not win until 1918. Women’s also protesting against the Word War I. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with other activists.

In 8 March ,1917 Against the backdrop of the war, women in Russia again chose to protest and strike for “Bread and Peace” on the last Sunday in February. Some days later, the Czar abdicated and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.

From 1918, with the rest of the United Kingdom, women could vote at 30 with property qualifications or in university constituencies, while men could vote at 21 with no qualification.
In 1971, lower the voting age from 21 to 18 grew across the country for the women.

In 1947 , on its independence from the United Kingdom, India granted equal voting rights to all men and women.

How far we have come from that to get Right to Vote. This is why we celebrate International Women’s Day on 8 March.