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Just over eighty days have passed since the beginning of the year and the beginning of the twentieth century, It commemorates the struggle of women for their social, labor, sexual and gender equality rights. The origins of International Women's Day can be traced back to the labor movements of that era, primarily in the United States and Europe. In 1903, the Women's Trade Union League emerged, an organization of wage-earning women structured by socialist, suffragist, and liberal professional women in the United States.On the last Sunday of February 1908, the women of this union held a demonstration called "Women's Day"., demanding the right to vote and better working conditions. In honor of the strike by textile workers that year, in which they protested the appalling working conditions.
From then on, several events solidified the current date for International Women's Day: March 25, 1911. A fire ravaged the Triangle Blouse Company factory in New York. At that time, the company employed 600 workers, mostly Jewish women and Italian immigrants, all under the age of 23. On the day of the fire, some doors of the factory, which occupied the top three floors of a ten-story building, were locked to prevent the workers from going on strike. 146 female workers died that day. On March 8, 1917, approximately 100,000 female workers in Russia demonstrated against poor working conditions and hunger. The protest became known as "Bread and Peace."« and was considered one of the first moments of the Bolshevik Revolution.
After these events, March 8th was consistently chosen as a commemorative day and became established in the following decades. Since the United Nations (UN) proclaimed International Women's Day in 1975, Inaugurating a "new stage of feminism", it is officially celebrated in most parts of the world.
This is not a sentimental date, for hastily giving away poems, doing favors to opportunistic businesses, or minimizing the injustices of the past and present. Today is a day of solidarity, advocacy, and remembrance of all that is still needed for gender equality to be properly achieved.
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