NEW DELHI: International Women’s Day, a day when we honour girls’s immense power and distinctive skills, falls on March 8 which is a Monday this yr. This day is supposed to uphold feminist values and rejoice womanhood to the fullest. It’s additionally an event to rejoice the nice achievements of ladies and the significant contributions they’ve made to the world.
To perceive how this day got here to be, right here is its fascinating historical past and significance:
History
The worldwide celebration rose out of ladies’s rights actions in the US, Russia and different European international locations the place they demanded civil, social, political and spiritual rights for ladies. In 1909, the Socialist Party of America inaugurated the first National
Woman’s Day on February 28 in the United States.
The celebration crossed borders when activist Clara Zetkin proposed holding an International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910. With about 100 girls from 17 completely different international locations current at the assembly, the resolution to make the Women’s Day celebration worldwide was handed.
International Women’s Day was first noticed in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland in the yr 1911.
Significance of the date
The date of March 8 was chosen for the celebration because it marks the day when girls in Soviet Russia began protests for the proper to vote which they had been granted in 1917. A public vacation was later declared on the similar date.
Earlier, the date (March 8) was solely celebrated by socialist activists and communist international locations. However, the bigger feminist motion adopted it in 1967. The celebration gained legitimacy when the United Nations started commemorating International Women’s Day in 1975 and two years later, the UN General Assembly formally formalized it as International Women’s Day.
Theme for 2021
The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘Women in management: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’. According to the UN Women web site, it goals to ‘rejoice the great efforts by girls and ladies round the world in shaping a extra equal future and restoration from the COVID-19 pandemic’. The hashtags for the day can be #IWD2021 and #InternationalWomensDay.
We stay up for celebrating courageous and lovely girls throughout the world!
