Why is Women's Day celebrated? The history of March 8 protest!
International Women's Day is celebrated on 8th March every year to celebrate women and realize the representation of women. Why is Women's Day celebrated? Who created it? Women's Day also has a history of struggle behind it.
In the 18th century, women were silenced as only fit for domestic work. This situation gradually changed and in the 1850s, women started to work in factories and offices. Although women entered the workforce at equal rates to men, they were still discriminated against in wages. Despite working on par with men, there was continued injustice in terms of rights and wages. Enraged by this, women held a great women's rights conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1910.
Many women from around the world participated in this conference and expressed their support. Women all joined hands and stood united for their rights. Among those who attended the conference was German revolutionary Clara Zetkin.
Clara, who united them for women's rights and continued to voice them, felt that a specific day should be observed as Women's Day all over the world to talk about women's rights. He tried to pass a resolution on it. But due to various reasons that resolution was not fulfilled. In subsequent years every country celebrated Women's Day every day.
After that, the revolution that made the world look back was the revolution led by women workers in Russia in 1917. It is history that the influence of this revolution overthrew the rule of the then Tsar of Russia. After this, in 1920, Alexandra Galenra from Russia participated in the protest of women in the city of Saint Peters in Soviet Russia.
They demanded that the last Sunday of February, when the revolution took place, be celebrated as Women's Day to commemorate the revolution of Russian women workers. According to the Gregorian calendar, the last Sunday they requested was March 8. After that he declared that International Women's Day should be held on March 8 every year. Since that year, International Women's Day has been celebrated on March 8 all over the world.