Google presents a new design of its famous scribblesinteractive content for your web browser, on the occasion of International Women’s Day which is celebrated on March 8.
This is an important date for women, commemorating the historic struggle feminist for equality and respect in all aspects of society.
How did International Women’s Day come about?
The commemoration of this date has its origin in labor movement of the 19th centurywhen the majority of the working sectors made up of women began to protest against their harshness limitations in terms of rights: they could not vote, could not access professional training and did not have access to their financial accounts, among others.
That’s why, inside 1948the first national convention for women’s rights was held in the United States, organized by Lucrezia Mott AND Elizabeth Cady Stanton. However, National Women’s Day in that country is commemorated on February 28, a date that would eventually be changed due to calendar issues.
It turns out that Russian women were also starting a larger process of activism in this matter, seeking peace during the WWI. After a long series of strikes, which began on February 23, 1914, all the women of the town were granted right to voteafter the withdrawal of the tsar.
Since the Julian calendar was in use on Russian territory, the correct date should still be February 23; but in Gregorian calendar it was there 8th of Marchdate on which International Women’s Day is currently commemorated.
This name was given only in 1975, thirty years after the creation of United Nations (UN), the body that officially established it.
Source: Clarin
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