International Women's Day was previously called International Working Women's Day, commemorating every March 8 the struggle of women for their participation in society, where they demand equality between men and women where the color chosen for this ispurple.
At the Second International Conference of Socialist Women held in Copenhagen in 1910, Clara Zetkin proposed and approved the celebration of Working Women's Day, and it began to be celebrated the following year. The first commemoration took place on March 19, 1911 in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Switzerland.
In Spain, March 8, 1936 was the first year that International Working Women's Day was celebrated.
In 1972, based on resolution 3010 of the United Nations General Assembly, the year 1975 was declared International Women's Year and in 1974 they asked States to declare, in accordance with their historical traditions and national customs, a day as International Women's Day. International for Women's Rights and International Peace, to visualize gender inequality and to demand the fight for effective equal rights for women in various areas. It is usually celebrated in almost all parts of the world (an example of this is Italy and its "Festa della Donna") and is a holiday in some countries. According to some feminist currents, it is based on the idea that it is not a day that should be celebrated or be festive due to its origin, but must serve to vindicate rights.
For the United Nations (UN), throughout the world women are below men in sustainable development indicators, gender inequalities, the wage gap between genders, in 39 nations male children have inheritance rights that female daughters do not, two thirds of the victims of human trafficking are women, women represent the vast majority of detected victims who were subject to sexual exploitation, many women still cannot choose a husband and every 2 seconds a girl is forced to child marriage on the planet and the serious problem of sexist violence.
That is why all the people, men and women of THE SUN PLACES, join this day to try to make a better world.