Clara Zetkin’s campaign and the Nigerian woman
Yesterday Friday March 8, 2019 was marked as International Women’s Day . For more than a century, people around the world have been marking 8 March as a special day for women. The Day grew out of labour movement to become an UN-recognised annual event. The seeds of the day were planted in 1908, when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter working hours, better pay and the right to vote. A year later, the Socialist Party of America declared the first National Women’s Day.
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