March 8th is Women's Day. Whose festival is this? What's the point?

March 8th is Women's Day, a women's day. Its significance is a festival for women all over the world to strive for peace, equality and development.

1909 On March 8th, women workers in Chicago, Illinois, USA and workers in the national textile and garment industry held a large-scale strike demonstration, demanding higher wages, an eight-hour working system and voting rights. This is the first organized mass struggle of working women in history, which fully shows the strength of working women. This struggle won the broad sympathy and enthusiastic response of women in the whole country and even other countries in the world, and finally won.

Before World War I, the shadow of war enveloped the whole world, and imperialism tried to carve up colonies. 19 10 In August, the second International Socialist Women's Congress was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Representatives from 65,438+07 countries attended the meeting. The main issues discussed at the meeting were opposing imperialist expansion and preparing for war and safeguarding world peace. At the same time, issues such as protecting the rights of women and children, striving for an eight-hour working system and women's right to vote were also discussed. Clara zetkin, a famous German socialist revolutionary and outstanding fighter, who led this meeting, proposed that March 8 every year be designated as the World Women's Struggle Day, which was unanimously supported by the delegates. Since then, "March 8" Women's Day has become a festival for women in the world to fight for their rights and liberation.