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History of Women’s Day
International Women's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world.
It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic or political.
Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike.
The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point to build support for women's rights and participation in the political and economic arenas.
We invite you to learn about the history of women’s rights and the UN's contribution to the cause.
First key years of the movement
Officially recognized by the United Nations in 1977, International Women's Day first emerged from the activities of labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and across Europe:
Movement in the United StatesThe first National Woman's Day was observed in the
United States on 28 February.
The Socialist Party of America designated this day in honour of the 1908 garment
workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.
But the first milestone in US was much earlier - in 1848.
Indignant over women being barred from speaking at an anti-slavery convention, Americans
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott congregate a few hundred people at their nation’s
first women’s rights convention in New York.
Together they demand civil, social, political and religious rights for women in a Declaration
of Sentiments and Resolutions. A movement is born.
Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world
Women stand at the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis, as health care workers, caregivers, innovators, community organizers and as some of the most exemplary and effective national leaders in combating the pandemic. The crisis has highlighted both the centrality of their contributions and the disproportionate burdens that women carry.
This year’s theme for the International Day,"Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world", celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is also aligned with the priority theme of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, "Women in public life, equal participation in decision making",and the flagship Generation Equality campaign, which calls for women’s right to decision-making in all areas of life, equal pay, equal sharing of unpaid care and domestic work, an end all forms of violence against women and girls, and health-care services that respond to their needs.
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