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The very first March 8 holiday!
On March 1857, 8, nearly 15 female workers at a textile factory in New York walked the streets with empty pots, demanding low wages, poor conditions, and equal rights with men. At the time, women worked up to 16 hours a day and were paid very little for their labor. This event attracted the attention of the whole world. On the same day, hundreds of women in many other cities staged a demonstration demanding suffrage.
On August 1910, 27, at the All-European Women's Forum in the Danish capital, a delegation of women from New York included the well-known German revolutionary Clara Setkin. In a fiery speech at the forum, she said: “New York women were right, European women should make similar demands. I propose to call March 8 the Day of Struggle for Women's Social Rights. " It was this speech that laid the foundation for the March 8 holiday.