International Women's Day

The International Women's Day, is a celebration for all women and their great efforts in gaining political, economical and social equality. Just a brief history on this wonderful day, a woman by the name of Clara Zetkin was the first person to come up with a Women's Day, she proposed that every year in every country their should be a celebration for Women while pressing for their demands. The very first International Women's Day was thus held on March 19th 1911. The date held significance for IWD because in 1848 the Prussian King recognized the strength of the armed people and gave into some demands, among the demands (which he never kept) was to allow women voters. The first IWD was so big that husbands had to stay home so that their wives could attend meetings. Two years later the Global meetings date was changed to March 8th and has remained ever since, today we find IWD a National Holiday in 15 countries. The United States takes it a step further and designates the whole month of March for Women's History. We recognize the every day struggles that women have gone through and support not just our Lateena women but all women in their continuing battle for equality.