March 17, March 8, International Women’s Day
March 8, International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries of the world.
March 8 is the day when women of the world, regardless of different intellectual, ideological, racial and They remember their successes and achievements. In fact, this day is an opportunity to look back at past efforts, conflicts, and activities, and more to look ahead to the future to pave the way for the flourishing of talents and opportunities that await the future generation of women.
The reason for choosing March 8 as International Women’s Day:
Every year, millions of men and women in all parts of the world celebrate this day on March 8 by organizing gatherings. The selection of March 8 as Women’s Day dates back to the struggle of women workers of the cotton textile factory in 1857 in New York City, USA.
The harsh and inhumane working conditions with low wages of women workers in the early 20th century, who entered the factories and labor market together with men in industrialized countries, forced them to fight against this injustice in an organized and systematic way. On this day, female textile workers went on strike in a large garment factory to protest against the very harsh working conditions and their economic situation. The memory of this strike remained for textile factory workers and general dissatisfaction with these conditions for women workers continued.
March 8, 1908:
After more than fifty years, the female workers of the cotton textile factory in New York City went on strike in order to revive the memory of the strike on this day, which reminds women of discrimination, deprivation and work pressure and very low salaries. The owner of this factory along with the guards, in order to prevent the solidarity of the workers of other departments with the strikers and prevent it from spreading to other departments, locked these women in their workplace and later for unknown reasons, the factory caught fire and only a few women were able to escape from this incident. And the rest of 129 women workers were burned in this fire.
For this reason, March 8 was traditionally remembered as the day of women’s struggle against injustice and pressure against women. In the following years, in various European and American countries, women’s struggle continued in the form of demonstrations and work strikes against oppression, discrimination and work colonialism, as well as for having equal rights in society.
One of the most important defenders of women’s rights in Germany, Mrs. Clara Zetkin, demanded the demands of women fighters in Germany for eight hours of work per day, special facilities during childbirth and other rights according to the law.