March 8: International Women's Day

International Women's Day is a date that is celebrated on March 8 throughout the world and is also commemorated by the United Nations. It is a date in which women come together to continue the fight for gender equality in different areas such as political, social and economic.
On March 8, 1908, some fifteen thousand women demonstrated in the streets of New York City. demanding a cut in working hours, the right to vote, an improvement in salary and the elimination of work childish. "Bread and Roses" was the selected slogan, bread represented economic security and roses the best quality of life. Two months later, the Socialist Party of America established the last Sunday in February as the Day National of Women, which was commemorated for the first time on February 28, 1909 but only in USA. In 1910 an international conference was held in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, where the creation of a World Women's Day was proposed and approved unanimously. The conference was attended by more than one hundred women from seventeen different nations.

A year later, in 1911, International Women's Day was proclaimed in Denmark, Austria, Germany and Switzerland by the first time, where more than a million women and men took to the streets in several demonstrations. Apart from the rights to hold public office and vote, the end of employment discrimination and the right to work were also claimed.
Russian women commemorated International Women's Day for the first time on the last Sunday in February 1913, in the rest of the European continent, next to March 8, women were demonstrating to protest the war or expressing their solidarity. In December 1977, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution proclaiming a special day for International Peace and Women's Rights.