International Women's Day (IWD)

International Women's Day (IWD), also called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8 every year.

When International Woman's Day (IWD) proposed?

The earliest Women’s Day observance was held on February 28, 1909, in New York.

Then proposal for the first time in August 1910, during an -International Women's Conference that was organized to precede the general meeting of the Socialist Second International in Copenhagen, Denmark.

100 women from 17 countries agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights, including suffrage, for women.

The following year, on March 19, 1911, IWD was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations.

Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, including Russia.

In 1914 International Women's Day was held on March 8, possibly because that day was a Sunday,

The 1914 observance of the Day in Germany was dedicated to women's right to vote, which German women did not win until 1918.