International Women's Day (08/03)

Beloved women come to us in the spring, They are unexpected, like rain or snow. Beloved women come to us with stars, When we open one among all. «Favorite women» music S. Tulikova, words by M. Plyatskovsky

March 8 — International Women's Day — World Women's Day, which, in addition to honoring the fair half of humanity, also celebrates the achievements of women in the political, economic and social fields, celebrates the past, present and future of women on the planet.

The modern celebration of Women's Day no longer has the goal of promoting equality (as it was originally), but is considered a day of spring, female beauty, tenderness, spiritual wisdom and attention to a woman, regardless of her status and age.

The holiday is celebrated by the United Nations, and in some countries — for example, Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus — this day is a national holiday.

The idea of holding International Women's Day first arose precisely at the beginning of the 20th century, when the industrialized world was experiencing a period of expansion and upheaval, a demographic boom and the emergence of radical ideologies.

The first celebration of International Women's Day began in 1909, when the first national women's day was celebrated in the United States on February 28 at the initiative of the Socialist Party of America. For several years they celebrated this day on the last Sunday of February. Then a wave of women's rallies, demonstrations and demonstrations swept Europe.

In 1910, the 2nd International Conference of Working Women took place in Copenhagen. The leader of the women's group of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Clara Zetkin, put forward the idea of celebrating International Women's Day. She proposed that Women's Day should be observed annually in each country on the same day. Zetkin called the goal of this holiday the struggle of women for their rights.

There is an opinion that the first ever «march of empty pots» of textile workers in New York, held on March 8, 1857, became one of the prerequisites for celebrating International Women's Day.

This holiday acquired the official status of «International Women's Day by decision of the UN in 1975, and since then it has been celebrated by the UN annually as the International Day for Women's Rights and International Peace and is dedicated to a specific topic every year.

On this day, women from all continents, often separated by national borders or ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, have the opportunity to come together and remember a tradition that represents at least several decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

Happy holiday! (Photo: Sveta Orlova, licensed from Shutterstock.com)

In Ancient Greece, Lysistrata organized a sexual strike against men to end the war; During the French Revolution, Parisian women who advocated «freedom, equality and brotherhood» organized a march on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.

International Women's Day — is a holiday for all women who have become creators of history. It is not surprising that women have become pioneers in many areas of — here are just some of the facts united by female «first». In January 1906, Russia's first higher technical educational institution for women opened in St. Petersburg; in January 1909, the world's first women's auto race started in New York; in May 1989, the first performance of the women's «Vivaldi Orchestra» took place.

In modern society, International Women's Day, first of all, — is a holiday of spring and attention to women, when representatives of the stronger half of humanity can once again please their beloved and dear women with gifts and care.



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