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It was in New York, in Seneca Falls, that the first women's convention was held and the first text that defended equal rights was written. -
Lucy Stone along with others girls creates an association for the fight for the right to vote for women, which she would call the National Woman Suffrage Association. -
In 1888 the first international organization for women's rights was formed. -
The first country to grant voting rights to women at the national level was the autonomous British colony of New Zealand, which passed the electoral bill. -
The International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) was formed by British women’s rights activist Millicent Fawcett, American activist Carrie Chapman Catt, and other leading women’s rights activists. -
On March 8, 1908, a labor protest began in the United States to demand less than 12 hours of work, better wages, the end of sexual harassment at work and the end of child labor. -
The year 1947 Sweden stood out for being the first country to declare the right to the same salary for the same work. -
In 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In this, the mandate of recognition of gender equality before the laws in all its areas is made explicit, the principle of equality, belief system, age, social class, etc. is recognized. -
The ONU decide make official this day for make homage to someone womans that die overexploit in his job for his boss. -
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is an annual United Nations sponsored awareness day that takes place on February 6 as part of the ONU efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.