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To know the true story of women's day we have to go back over 100 years .The German Social Democratic Party holding conferences to discuss women's issues such as not able to vote.
In the 1907 the international conference of socialist women met in Stuttgart,Germany .
This conference was led by Clara Zetkin ,a German Marxist Democratic Party.
One of its main goals was to get women into the workforce so that labor rights organizations could participate. -
In 1910, a second international conference of working women met in Copenaghen where over 100 delegates from all over world gathered.
Clara Zetkin promoted the idea of an international women's day. One day every year and every country women could organize and demonstrate for equal rights. After a vote on which all agreed, international women's day was born. -
The first European celebration of international women's day took place in Vienna on March 18,1911 -
The warm participation continued in 1912 with the Lawrence Textile strike in the United States, know as "the bread and roses strike". Bread and Roses was the slogan created by Rose Scheinderman, an American socialist and feminist born in Poland who in her speech stadet that workers need the simplest wage to live,bread. ANd they also need dignity and decent work standards,roses. -
With the passage of time more and more demonstrations took place in the world, then the world decided to go to war. The first world war.
To oppose this war Clara Zetkin organized the third and final conference of socialist women in 1915. -
The most dramatic women's day in 1917 in Russia, led by the feminist Alexandra Kollontai. Women's Day had already caused an uproar in Russia.The Russian women had observed their first international day in 1913. The following year all the organizers of the International Women's Day in Russia ended in handcuffs. -
in 1917 the number of women working in factories had risen as men marched in warned.The women who replaced them were paid half.The women were mainly found to work in industrial and chemical factories and their conditions were very bad. Until the women took to the streets to protest against their working conditions.Storming the streets of Petrograd either on February 23 or March 8, women went on strike against hunger and war and the Tsar