In honor to every woman. In honor in every woman that made the rights women enjoy today â possible. In honor to every person that helped them.
The earliest Womenâs Day observance, called âNational Womanâs Dayâ, was held on February 28, 1909, in New York City, organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of activist Theresa Malkiel. In August 1910, an International Socialist Womenâs Conference was organized to precede the general meeting of the Socialist Second International in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired in part by the American socialists, German delegates Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker, Paula Thiede and others proposed the establishment of an annual âWomenâs Dayâ, although no date was specified at that conference. Delegates (100 women from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights including suffrage for women The following year on March 19, 1911, International Womenâs Day was marked forâŚ