Every year we celebrate International Women's Day on 8th March. Many topics get discussed on this day, including gender parity, women's rights and crimes against women. This year, the theme is gender equality by raising awareness against a woman's achievements and equal status.
Several women have created history, but it is left uncelebrated. The world is full of women artists, women innovators, sportswomen, and women leaders. This year is all about celebrating such women. The hashtags for this year are #ChooseToChallenge and #IWD2021. This year, there is a call to challenge everything that forces women to lose their individuality and identity.
International Women's Day was started in the early 1900s. Earlier, women didn't have any individual rights, including the right to vote and the property right. Women and men, revolutionaries, started to debate on these topics. In 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pays and voting rights. The first Women's Day was observed across the United States since 1909. In 1910, the first conference of working women took place in Copenhagen. Clara Zetkin, a leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, proposed International Women's Day at this conference. The following years saw Austria, Denmark, Germany, Russia and Switzerland celebrating Women's Day during March and February. A few years later, Women's Day got established on 8th March. There were three colours for purple for justice and dignity, green for hope and white for purity. The day belongs to every woman everywhere.
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