1909 On March 8th, women workers in Chicago, Illinois, USA and workers in the national textile and garment industry held a large-scale strike demonstration, demanding higher wages, an eight-hour working system and voting rights. This is the first organized mass struggle of working women in history, which fully shows the strength of working women. This struggle won the broad sympathy and enthusiastic response of women in the whole country and even other countries in the world, and finally won.
Before World War I, the shadow of war enveloped the whole world, and imperialism tried to carve up colonies. 19 10 In August, the second International Socialist Women's Congress was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Representatives from 65,438+07 countries attended the meeting. The main issues discussed at the meeting were opposing imperialist expansion and preparing for war and safeguarding world peace. At the same time, issues such as protecting the rights of women and children, striving for an eight-hour working system and women's right to vote were also discussed. Clara Zetkin, a famous German socialist revolutionary and outstanding communist fighter who led the meeting, proposed that March 8 every year be the World Women's Struggle Day, which was unanimously supported by the delegates. Since then, "March 8" Women's Day has become a festival for women in the world to fight for their rights and liberation.
March 8 19 1 1 is the first international women's day.
China began to commemorate the March 8th Festival on 1922. 1924 China women's first large-scale commemoration of March 8th was held in Guangzhou.
From 1949 to 12, the State Council, the central people's government, has designated March 8 as Women's Day every year. The United Nations celebrated International Women's Day from 1975, which confirmed the tradition of ordinary women striving for equal participation in society. 1977, the General Assembly adopted a resolution inviting countries to choose a certain day every year as the United Nations Women's Rights and World Peace Day according to their own history and traditional customs. For the United Nations, International Women's Day is designated as March 8th.