Fototeca Storica Nazionale—Getty Images. These two suffragettes carried their banner to a White House gate on June 22, The message indicts Woodrow Wilson, but he later came out in favor of the Nineteenth Amendment. The words "free Russia" refer to the women's voting rights introduced by the provisional regime that had overthrown the Czar in March.
Related Stories. The organizers, members of the Socialist Party of America, wanted it to be on a Sunday so that working women could participate. Thousands of people showed up to various events uniting the suffragist and socialist causes, whose goals had often been at odds. Petersburg, Russia in Communists in Spain and China later adopted the holiday as well. How is it celebrated around the world today? Women get gifts and flowers, and there are parades and protests.
In Eastern Europe, it remains a day when women get flowers and sometimes get the day off of work. The irony is they go home and cook—not the most progressive reward—because patriarchy still exists. What do celebrations in the U. It might have something to do with socialism enjoying a bit of a revival because of people like Bernie Sanders and women being fed up. In one way the day will increase its stature as corporations work to commercialize it, but I sort of fear it will lose its progressive roots.
It was first organised in by the early 20th century Marxist from Germany Clara Zetkin. She trained as a teacher, and was associated with the Social Democratic Party SPD — one of the two major political parties in the country today.
In the s, when anti-socialist laws were enforced by German leader Otto von Bismarck, Zetkin went into a self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France.
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