Like every March 8, this Saturday the world celebrates International Women's Day , a date on which it is necessary to call for reflection regarding all those women who suffer from extreme poverty, physical and psychological abuse, discrimination and sexual abuse, among other execrable practices of a world that, in large part, is still controlled by the male aegis. And although these extreme cases may bring to mind the most extreme Eastern societies, in reality we do not have to look very far to realize that, in the 21st century, many human beings of the female gender live on the razor's edge, in subhuman conditions. It is enough to go through the villages and remote areas of the interior of the country, or take a taxi to marginal and depressed areas of our capital city to find ourselves in situations where the dignity of women is not taken into account, with the consent of a social network that continues to see as an object, in the case of some with their own consent, or second level people. Let's know the history of this special date, which began as a recognition of her right to participate in social, educational and work life.
Friedrich Engels's book The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State , published in 1884, played a fundamental role in the creation of the first feminist currents within the international labor movement. The theoretical framework developed by Engels thematized in a direct and concrete way important, crucial and determining issues about the role played by women in society. Among these themes were the conscious and planned reproduction of the proletariat, the differentiation between sexuality and procreation, independent motherhood, female emancipation, and the use of contraceptive methods.
Between 1909 and 1910 a series of events occurred that would change the international perception of women in the Western world. In February 1909, and following a declaration by the then still existing Socialist Party of the United States of America, Socialist Women's Day was celebrated for the first time.
The German communist politician Clara Zeitkin, was responsible for the proclamation of March 8 as International Women's Day in 1910 She worked at the Second International Conference of Socialist Women that took place in Copenhagen (Denmark) and was attended by numerous female representatives. In addition, this conference claimed universal suffrage for women in the international community.
Finally, in 1911 and as a result of the events that occurred between 1909 and 1910, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time Worker in Austria, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. A series of rallies, attended by over a million people, were held to celebrate the new status of women within society. Countless new horizons (the right to vote, holding public office, professional training, etc.) opened up to allow a gender that until then had been mistreated, vilified and ignored, to strengthen itself and demand the rights that as a human being it had always they reciprocated.
There was a fact that reinforced the growing thinking about female gender equality, at least within Western societies. Shortly after the celebrations in Northern Europe, a terrible and heinous disaster destroyed the Triangle shirt factory in New York. This fire of daunting dimensions and in which more than one hundred and forty working women (mostly immigrants) perished, affected American society so strongly that, at the legislative level, a series of reforms were carried out to determine the labor context in the one that the women of that country would work.
However, due to the idiosyncrasies of different cultures and countries, political situations and world events, International Women's Day It began to be celebrated several years apart, for example in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, International Women's Day was declared a holiday for the first time in 1965. . In China, the festivity was taken into account in 1922 for the first time, while in Spain it was during the civil war of 1936 that the first feminist groups saw their wishes come true.
Since 1975, the United Nations Organization celebrates the international day of all women worldwide. The proclamation of the International Day for Women's Rights and World Peace had to wait until 1977, the year in which this day was officially recognized and celebrated to honor, praise and praise the contribution that many women have made to humanity in different and various fields of human activity.
Currently, the UN has an Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, an institution created within the UN in order to continue protecting the rights of women, especially within the member countries that have traditionally been characterized by not respecting the integrity and equity of the legislative frameworks that regulate the existing similarity between genders. Four world conferences on women have been held since 1977 in order to make clear the relevant role of the female gender in all communities around the world.