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International Women's Day, what does March 8 symbolize?
2024-03-08 07:32:28 / JETË
International Women's Day is celebrated every year on March 8.
This day is symbolic of the historic journey that women all over the world have made to improve their lives.
March 8 comes as a reminder that no matter how much has been done, the journey is long and more needs to be done.
History and Meaning
International Women's Day has been celebrated for over a century now.
While many people think of it as a feminist issue, its roots lie in the labor movement.
It was organized in 1911 by Clara Zetkin, a German Marxist theorist.
Zetkin was born in 1857 in Wiederau, Germany.
She trained as a teacher and was affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (SPD), one of the two main political parties in the country today.
She was part of the labor movement and the women's movement.
In the 1880s, when anti-socialist laws were implemented by German leader Otto von Bismarck, Zetkin went into self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France.
During that time, she wrote and distributed banned literature and met the leading socialists of the time.
Zetkin also played an important role in the formation of the Socialist International.
On her return to Germany, she became editor of Die Gleichheit ('Equality'), the SPD's women's newspaper, from 1892 to 1917.
In the SPD, Zetkin was closely associated with the left-wing thinker and extremist Rosa Luxemburg.
In 1910, three years after she became a co-founder of the International Congress of Socialist Women, Zetkin proposed at a conference that Women's Day be celebrated in every country on February 28.
The conference was made up of 100 women from 17 countries, with trade unions, socialist parties, working women's clubs and female legislators unanimously endorsing the suggestion. Women's Day was observed for the first time in 1911.
Two years later, in 1913, the date was changed to March 8, and it continues to be celebrated as such every year.
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