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The date for the celebration of March 8 can be dedicated to one or more events.
The 8th of March became a symbol of feminism and antisexism / photo UNIAN

Many women in Ukraine every year, is celebrated on March 8 and more people every year wonders who came up with March 8 and what is the history of the holiday.

March 8: what kind of holiday

March 8, Wikipedia calls International women’s day, which is celebrated annually in several countries around the world. Historically emerged as a day of solidarity of women in many countries in the struggle for equal rights and emancipation. Since March 1975, international women’s day is celebrated in the UN.

This day women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries or ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, have the opportunity to come together and remember the tradition that represents at least several decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

The 8th of March became a symbol of feminism and antisexism. In some countries where the day is celebrated on 8 March, women receive gifts and flowers. This gesture many feminists, however, find inappropriate, because I believe that the day should call attention to gender inequality.


Feminists believe that the day should call attention to gender inequality / photo UNIAN

Over the past 100 years, this March 8 manifested itself in various forms: from the proclamation of the electoral rights of women, to focus attention on the atrocities against women of the 21st century.

The history of the holiday March 8

Despite the fact that women’s marches, protests and strikes were held in 1909, none of the events had on March 8. The first Women’s day was observed on 28 February 1909 in new York, and was organized by the Socialist Party of America in remembrance of the 1908 strike of the International women’s Union of garment workers.

It is believed that international women’s day on March 8 was invented by Clara Zetkin (the Social democratic party of Germany) at a large women’s meeting organised by the Socialist international in Copenhagen on 26 and 27 August, 1910. More than 100 participants from 17 countries decided annually in March to celebrate international women’s day – the day of solidarity of women in the struggle for full political, economic and social rights.

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However, the exact date of International women’s day at that conference was never defined.

The first international women’s day was held on 19 March 1911 women claimed the right to vote, the right to work and required to end discrimination at work. This day was celebrated in the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland and Denmark on different days. More than a million people took part in rallies.

The date for the celebration of March 8 can be dedicated to one or more events. Thus, it is believed that the first ever “March of empty pots” textile workers in new York, last March 8, 1857, became one of the prerequisites for the celebration of International women’s day.

During the March, they beat these same pots, to demand a 10-hour working day instead of 16 hours, equal pay and suffrage. This same version speaks about a famous German Communist Clara Zetkin.

There is another, more controversial version of the origin of the holiday on March 8. In 1857 in new York women actually protested, but this was no textile workers, and prostitutes. They are required to pay the salaries of the sailors, because they used their services and had no money to pay.

Still later, on 8 March 1894, in Paris took place another demonstration of prostitutes. This time they demanded recognition of their rights on a par with those workers in the service sector who sew clothes or bake bread, and to establish special trade unions.

Similar events were held in 1895 in Chicago, and in 1896 in new York. These protests and resulted in the memorable Congress of suffragettes in 1910, where it was decided to declare March 8 as Women’s day and international, as proposed by Zetkin. By the way, the Clara Zetkin participated in such actions. In 1910, together with her friend Rosa Luxemburg she put on the streets of German cities prostitutes with a demand to stop the excesses of the police. Here only in the Soviet version of “prostitutes” was replaced with “women workers”.

Whatever the true history of this day, March 8 has long been a symbol of beauty, tenderness, femininity and spring.

March 8 Ukraine 2019

Although the 8th of March in 2019 is perceived more as a Communist relic than a real expression of the feminist movement, in some States on 8 March is a public holiday. Among these countries and Ukraine. While the majority of Ukrainians are not ready to abandon the celebration of 8 March.

However, in February 2017, the Ukrainian national memory Institute (the Institute) has developed proposals for decommunization of the public holiday calendar. Instead of the day March 8 was proposed to set the output Shevchenko day (9 March).


Instead of the output 8 of March it was proposed to set the output Shevchenko day (March 9) / photo UNIAN

In the list from the winp is a holiday, which is scheduled as an alternative to the 8th of March. We are talking about mother’s Day (second Sunday in may). However, it is a public holiday scheduled as a work day.

Also, the team of the Institute proposed to do another holiday that can act as a replacement on 8 March. In mid-September, you may receive a family Day, which is scheduled to make a state holiday.

8 March congratulations

Now the holiday has lost its original political overtones, and turned into a flower the day of honoring the beautiful ladies. On this day men congratulate women on the occasion of femininity, beauty, and coming this spring.

Previously, we have selected for you beautiful, funny and original greetings with 8th of March.


photo UNIAN

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This wonderful women’s day I want to wish only positive emotions, endless happiness and good health. Let adversity sidestep, and every day is cause for new joy.

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I heartily congratulate with this wonderful women’s day — 8 March. Wish you want the grandeur of soul and irresistible beauty, rich life and successful activity, sincere love and happy emotions, moments of happiness and fulfillment to the dreams.

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Dear mommy! Today is the day that I would like to remind you that you’re the most beautiful, the most important person to me. Thank you very much for everything you taught me. For all that gave and showed in life. I congratulate you with March 8, my dear. Be the same beautiful woman, the same kind person and a good mom. With a holiday!

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A beautiful day on 8 March

Let the worried soul,

Compliments will be hot

And your head will spin.

Let your heart fill with joy,

Harmony and beauty,

Of sweet eyes will take the fatigue

And will never return!

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