International Women’s Day: Choose to Challenge

International Women’s Day (IWD) is commemorated on March 8 every year, as it has been since 1910, when Clara Zetkin, a German politician, suggested the annual date as a global observance of the American National Women’s Day inaugurated the year before.

The day was hardly considered a ‘celebration’ however. It was designed to concentrate demands by women for better working and social conditions. Better pay, shorter hours and the right to vote were the three tenets of the movement that attracted more than one million people to march through cities in Europe, America and Britain in 1911.

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Source:: https://www.grv.org.au/news/2021/03/07/international-womens-day-choose-to-challenge/

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