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International Women’s Day—March 8—1911-2006
The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen in 1910, established a Women's Day to honor the movement for women's rights and for universal suffrage
The proposal was approved by women delegates from 17 countries, which included three women elected to the Finnish parliament. International Women's Day was marked for the first time in 1911. More than one million rallied in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and an end to job discrimination. On March 25, 1911 the Triangle Fire in New York City killed 140 working women, mostly Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event, and the working conditions leading up to it, are still invoked during observances of International Women's Day. —United Nations Dept of Public Information As part of the peace movement on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters. —United Nations Department of Public Information