International Women’s Day (IWD), day (March 8) honouring the achievements of women and promoting women’s rights. A national holiday in numerous countries, it has been sponsored by the United Nations (UN) since 1975. International Women’s Day (IWD) gre
International Women's Day is an international event celebrated annually by default on 8th March in the entire globe so as to bring the problem of gender inequality into the limelight again and again. Also, this day is special for...
In 1910, a woman called Clara Zetkin – leader of the ‘women’s office’ for the Social Democratic Party in Germany – tabled the idea of an International Women’s Day. She suggested that every country should celebrate women on one day every year to ...
This article examines the contested history of International Women's Day (IWD) in China during the first half of the twentieth century. It explores the processes of cooption and subsumption that have diminished the "international" in IWD in the Chinese context as the feminist movement confronted...
In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman namedClara Zetkin(Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) tabled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there should...
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- A reception in the run-up to International Women's Day, which falls on March 8, was held in Beijing on Thursday. Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin, also president of the All-China Women's Federation, addressed the event and extended greetings to females both...
Michel is immersed in a torrid affair with schoolteacher, Nicole Horner (Simone Signoret) and regularly abuses both women as well as his students. The two women embark on a plot to kill Michel, but when they succeed in their plan, Michel’s body goes missing. ...
On March 5, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee joined a panel discussion with deputies from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, at the first Session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature. Cartoon Commentary on...
In recognition of its importance,Vladimir Lenin, founder of Russia’sCommunist Party, declared Woman’s Day an official Soviet holiday in 1917. Communists in Spain and China later adopted the holiday as well. (Sometime after 1945, the terminology shifted, and “Woman’s Day” became “Women’...
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