It’s International Women’s Day!

You probably know International Women’s Day by its name, and it’s held annually on Mar 8th, today. But it’s more than that because it has a history dating back about a century.

It started when in 1908, 15,000 women filled the streets of New York City, demanding better pay, shorter working hours, and voting rights. The first “National Women’s Day” got held on Feb 28th, 1909, in NYC and would continue like this in the U.S. until 1913. An International Women’s Conference got organized in August 1910 by Clara Zetkin, a German suffragist and leader in the Women’s Office. She proposed a special Women’s Day to get annually organized, and International Women’s Day was honored the following year in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. In the 1960s, a liberation movement took place, and the effort led to the Voting Rights Act, allowing all women to vote in the U.S.

That is a long history and also a happy ending. So when someone tells you something, don’t underestimate its history. And don’t overestimate it either. Well, don’t estimate at all. Listen to the story!