International Women's Day

It was 1875, when thousands of women workers from the New York garment industry marched into the streets, protesting against unfair wages, a 12-hour work day, and sexual harassment in the workplace. During this strike, there was a fire and 130 manifestants died.
In 1908, working conditions had not yet improved and women garment workers gathered again in another demonstration of their discontent, renewing their call for fair treatment and demanding the end of child labor. The women carried the slogan "Bread & Roses", for the economical wealthy and life quality. Still during this year, at March 8, women gathered in New York City to rally around the issue of women's suffrage. Later in this year, the American socialist party established the last Sunday of February as the International Women's Day, and so it was from 1909 to 1913.
In 1913, during the international assembly of socialists parties, Clara Zetkin proposed March 8 as the International Women's Day, and so it has been, year after year, until today.
Every year this day is celebrated in memory of those women who never stopped believing, who always fought for their beliefs and for those who suffered the cruelty and discrimination of our society. This day is celebrated to mark the importance of equality of rights in our society, and to remember our society that there is still much more to improve in order to have a fair society.
Today, in the twentieth-first century, we still see and know of lots of cases where women are discriminated, harassed or mistreated.
Let us never forget and fight against it.