Have You Prepared Gifts for Women’s Day?

International women's day on March 8 is the world women's festival which was not only recognized by the United Nations, but also was determined as the statutory holiday by many countries. Although women from all over the world are distinguished based on national boundaries, race, language, culture, economy and politics, they can simultaneously celebrate this day that belongs to their own. Let's look back the struggling for equality, justice, peace and development happened the ninety years ago.
The international women's day is the witness that working women created the history. Women have walked a long way to struggle for equality with men. An Ancient Greek figure led women struggle to prevent war; During the French revolution, Paris women walked on the streets of Versailles chanting "liberty, equality and fraternity” to demand the right to vote.
The concept of International Women's Day initiated in the early 20th century when the international society was just in industrialization period of rapidly growing population, radical ideology, and unstable social situation. The following is the elaboration of important events:
In 1909, according to the announcement of American social party, the first international women's day in the United States was designated the last Sunday of February, namely 28 February, until 1913.
In 1910 socialist international conference held in Copenhagen was decided to establish a women's festival, as a reward for the accomplishments by the women's movement. The plan was determined by more than 100 women from 17 countries, including three women who won the right to vote in congress in Finland. But an accurate date wasn't identified at that meeting.
In 1911, Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland adopted March 19 as women's day. More than a million people attended the rally to demand the right to vote and hold office. Additionally, they also required the equal opportunities of work and employment training, as well as elimination of working sex discrimination.
In the peace movement occurred on the eve of World WarⅠ, Russian women celebrated their first festival on February, 1913. And over the coming years in the rest of Europe, women always hold a rally on March 8 to express their determination to fight against war.
In 1917, more than two hundred million Russian soldiers died in the war, so the Russian women once again choose the last Sunday in February for a "bread and peace" strike. Regardless of the governmental opposition, women demonstrated in the street. Four days later, the tsar had to abdicate, and the interim government gave women the right to vote. This historical Sunday was February 23 of Roman calendar, while it was March 8 according to the solar calendar of other countries.
Women’s Day went through such complicated stages that we should commemorate it and cherish what we have acquired. But do you have a good plan about how to spend this day? Will you offer yourself some gifts, such as clothes or jewelry?