Why 8th March is Celebrated as Women’s Day

Mar 07, 2019

From the past few years the importance and value of women in our society have noticed a tremendous change. Though the fight for equal rights is still going on but still Women's Day is now being celebrated with great enthusiasm. But we really know how it came into existence.

Women’s Day is celebrated for women and their achievements “without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political. It first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the 20thcentury in North America and across Europe."

Celebrated first time in 1909 in the United States in honor of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York where women protested against working conditions.’

After this an official meeting was organized in Copenhagen where it was decided to honor the movement for women’s rights and ‘build support for achieving universal suffrage for women.’ This idea got approved by100 women from 17 countries and March 19 was decided as the Women’s Day.

But during World War I women came up in unity and wanted to celebrate the last Sunday of February as Women’s Day but in 1917, according to the Gregorian calendar, the Sunday was on March 8 thus, by 1975, the United Nations began celebrating International

Why 8th March is Celebrated as Women’s Day

From the past few years the importance and value of women in our society have noticed a tremendous change. Though the fight for equal rights is still going on but still Women's Day is now being celebrated with great enthusiasm. But we really know how it came into existence.

Celebrated first time in 1909 in the United States in honor of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York where women protested against working conditions.’

But during World War I women came up in unity and wanted to celebrate the last Sunday of February as Women’s Day but in 1917, according to the Gregorian calendar, the Sunday was on March 8 thus, by 1975, the United Nations began celebrating International

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Celebrated first time in 1909 in the United States in honor of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York where women protested against working conditions.’

But during World War I women came up in unity and wanted to celebrate the last Sunday of February as Women’s Day but in 1917, according to the Gregorian calendar, the Sunday was on March 8 thus, by 1975, the United Nations began celebrating International

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