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Hey ladies! It’s your day. Of course, we think that celebrating women should be happening 24/7, 365—but March 8 has been designated as especially worthy of glorifying women all over the world. International Women’s Day is an official holiday honoring the women’s rights movement and the achievements of women in every realm.
First organized as “National Women’s Day” in New York City on February 28, 1909 by the Socialist Party of America, the idea of giving women a designated day caught on globally the next year at the International Socialist Women's Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark where German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede, and others proposed an official women’s day to further suffrage and equal rights for women everywhere. Delegates from 17 other countries agreed and, the following year on March 19, 1911, International Women’s Day was first celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland.
So with America observing the holiday at the end of February, and Europe celebrating in mid-March, how did we all agree on March 8? It wasn’t that they split the difference, but rather, in 1914, Germany chose to move the date to the 8th and others followed suit. A few years later, in 1917, women textile workers in Petrograd, Russia were commemorating Women’s Day on March 8 by holding mass demonstrations while women in St. Petersburg went on strike to demand the end of World War I and the dissolution of czarism. These actions initiated the country’s February Revolution (though it was March on the Gregorian calendar), eight days of mass strikes that ended victoriously with the Tsar abdicating the throne. A Provisional Government was then installed that granted Russian women the right to vote. Thus, March 8 was solidified as a fitting date for International Women’s Day—though recent events in Russia illustrate how much still needs to be done for women’s rights and the rights of oppressed people everywhere.
In the following decades, the holiday was primarily celebrated in communist countries (oddly enough, the United States didn’t love the association) until 1967 when second-wave feminists took up the banner and reinstituted it as a global day of activism. In 1977, the United Nations declared it an official holiday.
A century later, women’s rights have certainly come a long way in many regards, but there is a tremendous amount that remains to be accomplished for women to live in a world that is equal and safe, where they have the same number of seats at every table. For 2022, the International Women’s Day theme is “break the bias.” Gender bias, stereotypes, and discrimination contributes to an unequal playing field in which women are held back. By breaking the bias, whether deliberate or unconscious, we can create a more equal, equitable, and diverse world in which women are valued and celebrated.
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