Currently, this day has been renamed "Intenational Women's Day, but not long ago was celebrated as" International Day of Working Women. " After all, this day is to commemorate years of struggle for Equality, Justice, Peace and Development. It refers to all women throughout history have struggled to find, especially, equality in all sectors (Social, political, educational, labor, employment ...).
There are different versions about how this day was first celebrated. The best known is that of a fire at a textile factory in New York in 1857, where the workers were burnt which made a strike. There is no documentary evidence that the fire occurred in that year. There is also the version of the manifestation of the textile workers of New York by low wages and poor working conditions. See here the study by Isabel Álvarez González (The origins and celebration of International Women's Day, 1910-1945, KRK-Ediciones, Oviedo, 1999),
Whatever the origin, the fact is that on the 8th of March is a date established to reflect on the social and working conditions in which it is today women. If those women looked up at the beginning of S. XX would be that the effort was worthwhile, which has advanced greatly, but also that this equality has a long way, not all parts of the world exists. Serve
reflection for this and many other days this "Letter from a mother .
There are different versions about how this day was first celebrated. The best known is that of a fire at a textile factory in New York in 1857, where the workers were burnt which made a strike. There is no documentary evidence that the fire occurred in that year. There is also the version of the manifestation of the textile workers of New York by low wages and poor working conditions. See here the study by Isabel Álvarez González (The origins and celebration of International Women's Day, 1910-1945, KRK-Ediciones, Oviedo, 1999),
Whatever the origin, the fact is that on the 8th of March is a date established to reflect on the social and working conditions in which it is today women. If those women looked up at the beginning of S. XX would be that the effort was worthwhile, which has advanced greatly, but also that this equality has a long way, not all parts of the world exists. Serve
reflection for this and many other days this "Letter from a mother .
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