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Women protests led to Women's Day

Women protests led to Women's Day

In New York, February 1908, thousands of women who were garment workers went on strike. They marched through the city to protest against their working conditions, which included less organized workplaces (than the men), lower echelons, lower wages, and sexual harassment.

The strikes lasted for more than a year. In honour of the anniversary of those strikes, a National Women's Day was celebrated on Feb 28, 1909, spearheaded by the Socialist Party of America and led by German socialist Clara Zetkin.

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Women's day on Mar 8

Women's Day took on a truly revolutionary form in Russia in 1917. Russia was facing unrest for other reasons (war and widespread food shortages).

The International Women's Day demonstration was held on Feb 23, 1917 - the equivalent of Mar 8 in the Russian calendar. Women were the core protesters and the ones on the breadline. This grew to daily mass strikes of workers from all sectors demanding bread, better rights and the end to autocracy.

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Suffrage and International Women’s Day

Russian women demanded the right to vote - and gained it in 1917 as a direct consequence of the March protests. Russia was the first major power to enact suffrage legislation for women. The U.K. and U.S. looked to Russia as an example.

Because of the political associations with the Soviet Union and socialism, the U.N. day observance was only established in 1975.

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International Women's Day and women's rights

International Women's Day is marked with celebration as well as with protest, but the day's legacy remains a struggle for women's rights.

  • In Russia, recently there was an amendment signed to a law that decriminalise some forms of domestic violence.
  • Since the Women's March in early 2017, American women have been mobilised to action by conversations on sexual harassment, equal pay, threats to reproductive healthcare, etc.

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