International Women's Day , originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. The International Women's Day is a time to celebrate the role of women in all areas of human development that produce positive progress, social harmony and the possibility of general improvement of living conditions of our generation and future generations.
Why they chose the March 8 to commemorate this day?
The historical record is not very explicit. However, two important facts are given and occurred both in the city of New York.
*- The first was a march of women textile workers in 1857. Thousands of women marched to the affluent suburbs of New York to protest the miserable conditions of women workers.
*- The second occurred in 1908. That year, 40,000 industrial seamstresses large factories went on strike demanding the right to join unions, higher wages, less working time, vocational training and the rejection of child labor. During the strike, 129 workers died in a fire at the factory Cotton Textile in Washington Square, New York. The factory owners had locked up their workers to force them to stay on the job and not join the strike.
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