INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2017: HISTORY, STRIKES AND CELEBRATIONS

In this post I'll talk about a celebration which happened this week, namely the 8th of March. It was the women's day and took place strikes around the world to become aware people that there are still a large gender inequality. I found a article in BBC news which talks about the origin and the celebrations of this day and I would share it with you. 

Everything started in 1908 when 15.000 of women marched through New York as a labor movement demanding less hours working, better wages and the right of vote. This fact made Socialist Party of America to declare the First National Women's day the following year. To another hand, Clara Zetkin, had the idea of create the international day for women. It happened at a International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910. It was celebrated for first time in 1911. But it was oficial in 1975 when United Nations started celebrating the day with a annual theme. This day has become a date to celebrate the evolution of women in society and a to aware that the fight isn't over because there are many inequalities. 

Clara Zetkin's idea hadn't fixed a date to celebrate it. Although that nowadays we celebrated it at 8th of April. The day was fixed during a women strike in 1917 in Russia when they got the right of vote. The strike started the 8th of March and for this reason, today we celebrated on this date. 

The International Women's Day is celebrated giving flowers to women. For example in Italy, the flower which they give is mimosa blossom. Furthermore, most of the countries celebrated this day working part-time since the Work Council declares it. 

This year the theme was #BeBoldForChange. During this 2017 there have been strikes around the world as in USA against the ideology of Donald Trump or in Irish against the abortion law. Strikes are summoned in all the world and International Women's day was incredible how many people took the streets to be heard. 

The article also talks about International Men's day. It is on 19th of November but isn't declared official as the women day. The theme of 2016 was Stop Male Suicide. 

I really believe that we, women, have to defend our rights because we are as men and nobody are able to saying or treating us as if we are inferior to them. This article aware me to the fight that women been doing until 100 years. So, We mustn't stop the movement and fight our ancestors begin and we have to end with the gender violence.

I learned new words that appear on the article. It are strike, seeds and mimosa.