All women of our country are always waiting for this spring and very bright holiday called March 8th. The history of its occurrence is probably known to many. From childhood, we used to hear that the celebration of March 8, we owe two historical figures: the Communists K. Zetkin and R. Luxembourg. Is it really so? Let's try to figure it out. Back in 1857, on this day, hundreds of workers in the factories of the city of New York made demands to reduce the length of the working day (which, by the way, reached 16 hours!), To increase earnings on a par with men, since their salary was significantly different from that men received, and also improve inappropriate working conditions. After these speeches, the working day was reduced to 10 hours and women's unions were created for the first time.
March 8. History of occurrence
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Social Democratic Party in New York also held a rally on March 8, 1908, which called for equal rights for women and men, to reduce working hours, increase wages and grant suffrage. Approximately 15,000 women took to the streets of the city that day, and in 1909 it was declared the National Women's Day in the United States, which was celebrated until 1913 on the last Sunday of February.
About the holiday on March 8, history also provides such interesting information. In August 1910, a conference organized by women socialists was held in Copenhagen on August 27. It was then that the meeting of American socialists with Clara Zetkin took place, proposing to choose a day on which the female sex will be able to freely declare their rights and demands at all kinds of processions and rallies. And on March 19, 1911 in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Denmark, women celebrated their day, although in 1912 it was celebrated in May, the 12th. Since 1913, women in many countries began to claim their rights on different days, which they chose on their own.
Regarding the holiday of March 8, the story contains many other interesting facts. For example, in 1914, in six countries, including Russia, on March 8, thousands of women took part in the celebration of their day. In many countries, the process of recognizing women as individuals has begun. Men are very reluctant to grant some rights to the “beautiful half”. In the countries of Scandinavia they even began to partially grant the right to vote. The process has begun. Women could no longer stay at home and began to take an active part in society.
March 8 (its history in Russia is very eventful), was highly acclaimed in Russia. On the eve of the revolution (February) on March 8, 1917 in the city of Petrograd, textile workers from a working outskirts went on strike and took to the streets of the Russian capital. They went to the City Duma with demands to overthrow the king, they intended to get equal rights with men. This day is the beginning of the February Revolution, and in 1921 the Women's Communist Conference, second) established the celebration of March 8 as a Women's Day, in memory of the beginning of the February chaos.
If we talk about March 8, the history of its development in Soviet Russia after 1920 underwent many changes. For some reason, they have safely forgotten about women's day , because it was necessary to impose other ideological principles. Beautiful ladies picked up jack hammers, picks and shovels. They began to do heavy, dirty physical work, considering it equal.
March 8. Free Day History
Only since 1966 in the Soviet Union this holiday, thanks to the decree of 03/08/965, officially became a non-working day, designed to honor beautiful ladies. Millions of Soviet women have an extra day to relax.
March 8 holiday, the history of formation in the CIS countries
In the CIS on March 8, a public holiday, except for the Baltic countries and Turkmenistan, where it was not widely used.