International Women's Day

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Wikipedia - "International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year. It commemorates the movement for women's rights. March 8 was suggested by the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference to become an 'International Woman's Day.' After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations. The earliest Women's Day observance, called 'National Woman's Day,' was held on February 28, 1909 in New York, organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of Theresa Malkiel. Though there have been claims that the day was commemorating a protest by women garment workers in New York on March 8, 1857, researchers have described this as a myth. ... Delegates (100 women from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights including suffrage for women. ..."
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NY Times: Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries
Guardian: Feminists have slowly shifted power. There’s no going back
Jacobin: The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day
Vogue: International Women’s Day 2018: The History of IWD’s Socialist Roots
Yale: Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900

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