A special day to highlight the importance of women in our society. It is the day in which we all unite in a single cry for equality in all senses between men and women. sure you are interested know why of this day, what is it its origin Y When is International Women’s Day 2022 celebrated?then we will tell you.
When is International Women’s Day 2022 celebrated?
International Women’s Day It is commemorated on March 8agreed upon in the United Nations Assembly in 1975. Two years later, in 1977, March 8 became the International Women’s Day and International Peace.
What is claimed
It was a way of formalize the continuous demands of women for the equality of women with respect to men. Equal opportunities, equal pay, equal rights, etc.
March 8 is a protest day in many countries, although unfortunately not in all. A day in which women, regardless of their nationality, race, language, culture, etc., come together to fight for justice, equality and development.
The International Women’s Day, tries to raise the woman and her role in history. The need for a more active participation in the different levels of society. Claim equality against men who are often denied us.
Background
Already in ancient Greece, women like Lysistrata promoted a strike against men to end the terrible wars.
Women like those who rose in Paris marching towards Versailles to the cry of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, claiming the women’s suffrage in the French Revolution.
Or like the women who have not hesitated to eTake up your weapons to defend freedom and yet they rarely figure in the pages of history.
Women scientists, philosophers, writers or painters who have often had to use pseudonyms because of their status as women. Women who were forced to sign under male names in order to make their works visible. For all of them, the next Sunday March 8 marks International Women’s Day 2022.
Why is International Women’s Day 2022 celebrated?
After the Russian Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai, Bolshevik leader, got hitherto unthinkable rights for women. She achieved the female vote, divorce and abortion, she was a woman who broke barriers. She got the March 8 was considered as official holiday in the Soviet Union. Despite being an official holiday, unlike others, this day would be a working day.
From when the Soviet Union made official on March 8, other countries began to adhere to this initiative. We have an example in China, where it has been celebrated since 1922, in Spain in 1936. But it was not until 1975, when the ONU established March 8 as International Women’s Day.
UN Resolution
Two years later and through Resolution 32/142 36, asked the member countries to establish one day a year as «United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace«.
In order to make visible the problems that exist in the world in relation to equal opportunities and the recognition of women.
The reason for this day, it is evident, is a day for reflection, to commemorate the progress made throughout history. It’s a day for demand more changes and celebrate the struggle and courage that women have shown throughout history.
walking womenwho have risen up against injustice, playing a key role in history both from the world and from their countries or communities.
Current situation
Today, despite achieving achievements, still full gender equality has not been achieved. Around the world, it is estimated that there are legal restrictions for two thousand seven hundred million women.
women who cannot access the same job opportunities That men. The number of women parliamentarians in 2019 was less than 25%. Figures that are terrifying to us, especially when 1 in 3 women experience gender-based violenceeither.
Origin of International Women’s Day 2022
The origin of International Women’s Daypart of the different labor movements that took place in the mid-nineteenth century. With industrialization and the consequences it had on the new social class, women began to demand better conditions and more rights.
Status of women in the nineteenth century
Women who in the mid-nineteenth century were full of limitations. They couldn’t vote, they couldn’t have bank accounts, they were uneducated, they were mistreated and they had a lower life expectancy to that of men. They were the most disadvantaged group, their working day was the same as that of men, but their salary was not.
But they were nothing more than voices crying out in the desert until, in 1848, women came together to create the first national convention for women’s rights. This took place in United States at the initiative of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
Two assertive women who always maintained equality between men and women, demanding civil, political, social and even religious rights. Claims that were the target of ridicule, especially everything related to the right to vote for women.
The 20th century has arrived
In spite of everything, both sowed the seeds of later revolutions as it was, the women’s march on March 8, 1908, in New York. That day more than 15,000 women began a demonstration through the streets of the city demanding the reduction of working hours, better salaries and the right to vote.
It can be considered that this demonstration was the prelude to a revolution, which continues to this day. Also was the reason for establishing March 8 as International Women’s Day.
in 1909the PSA (Socialist Party of America), would declare in the United States, National Women’s Day. The first day dedicated to women and it was celebrated for the first time on February 28, 1910.
But if there is a woman who promoted the establishment of a day for women at the international levelwas the German communist Clara Zetkin.
From her came the idea of commemorating one day a year and at an international level, especially dedicated to women. This proposal she made in 1910 in the International Conference of Working Womenheld in Denmark.
A proposal that liked the hundred women from 17 countries who attended the Conference and after voting said proposals, was unanimously approved.
March 19, 1911just one year later, The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Switzerland.
A call that came to gather more than a million people. Besides of right to vote it was required to occupy public chargesthe right of women to workto vocational training Yet the labor equality.