Oddly enough, but it all started with the U.S.. In 1857, in New York, the female team apparel and footwear factories left in the demonstration. They demanded a 10-hour (a 16-hour!) Workday, better working conditions, equal pay with men. In the midst of various trade union organizations is March 8, 1857 organized the first union, whose members were women. 51 years in 1908 in New York in protest demonstration was held 15000th, the main requirements of which was to raise wages, working conditions and equal voting rights with men. Police broke up, and this demonstration.
So despite the history of International Women's Day, it's safe to say that it originated in the "rotting capitalism."
The following year the Socialist Party of America declared the last Sunday of February the national Women's Day which was celebrated until 1913. In 1909 at the Second International Conference in Copenhagen, representatives of Socialist Women of the United States infected with the idea of the day Clara Zetkin. Clara Zetkin proposed every year on this day to speak with the requirements of improving the work of women around the world. At the conference, representatives from 17 countries unanimously agreed.
After the conference in Denmark, the day of the first International Women's Day was officially marked on March 19 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Over one million people participated in demonstrations for better working conditions, the ability to vote and hold public office.
A week after the first celebration of International Women's Day at a factory in New York killed 140 women. This tragic event has rallied more women around the world.
In 1913, the day was postponed to March 8, where it is celebrated to this day.
In 1915, Clara Zetkin organized a demonstration in Bern, Switzerland, calling for the end of World War II. The demonstration was attended by women from both sides of the front. The war killed more than 2 million Russian soldiers. Women of Russia chose the last Sunday of February for a strike, "Bread and Peace." Political leaders opposed the date of the strike, but the women have changed the date. Clara Zetkin and Alexandra Kollontai as uchestvovali in St. Petersburg on this show, along with Russian women. 4 days after the strike the king was forced to abdicate. That historic Sunday dated 23 February on the Julian calendar, and fell on March 8 in the Gregorian calendar (new style, now used).
Alexandra Kollontai, the minister of the first Soviet government, persuaded Lenin to make March 8 an official holiday. On 8 March 1965 made the weekend.
In the U.S., International Women's Day was celebrated in 1910-1920's, but then started to forget about it. The festival was revived during the feminist movement for women's rights in 1960. In 1975 the UN recognized the International Women's Day.
March 8th is officially the weekend in the former Soviet Union, besides going out in Angola, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Cambodia, China, Congo, Laos, Macedonia, Mongolia, North Korea, Uganda, Uzbekistan (Mothers Day) in Armenia 7 April (Day of Motherhood and Beauty).
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