The entire world has celebrated International Women\u2019s Day for over a century now.<\/p>\n
In 1908, 15 thousand women from the textile industry participated in a march in New York campaigning for shorter hours, better pay and the right to voting. A year later, the Socialist Party in America declared February 28th, the first National Women\u2019s Day. The idea to transform this day in an international event came in 1910 at an international conference of the working women hosted by Copenhagen. The initiative enjoyed success, so that the Women\u2019s Day was celebrated outside USA for the first time in 1911 in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.<\/p>\n
The United Nations Organisation started marking the event on March 8, during the International Women\u2019s Year in 1975. Three years later, in 1977, the UN General Assembly made the day official attaching it a specific thematic every year. The first theme in 1996 was \u201dcelebrating past, planning the future\u201d. The chosen theme this year is “Invest in women, accelerate progress\u201d. In other words, marked at the beginning of spring, the International Women\u2019s Day is not about flowers, gifts, shows, exhibitions, conferences or parties, which are plentiful including here in Romania! It is a manifesto-day, an occasion to recognize the impact that women have in society. From activists and leaders to mothers, colleagues and friends, women have contributed to the construction of society and the improvement of life. Unfortunately statistics confirm that they continue to remain a vulnerable category, and the issue of gender equality hasn\u2019t been entirely solved yet. Women are still being discriminated against in terms of salaries, access to education and career opportunities. They are also victims of violence and sexual abuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany happy returns and a beautiful spring\u201d Romania\u2019s Social-Democratic Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu wished the Romanian women, while the Senate president, Liberal Nicolae Ciuca in a message on the Women\u2019s Day wrote: \u201cA civilized prosperous society is that in which every woman has the possibility to follow her dreams and objectives in an equitable, just and inclusionary environment. And our duty is to ensure this environment. We must continue the policies, which promote the equality of chances and which are combating discrimination and violence against women.\u201d<\/p>\n
And because we are speaking about equality of chances and non-discrimination, we must also mention that on November 19th<\/sup> we are celebrating the International Men\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n (bill)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The entire world has celebrated International Women\u2019s Day for over a century now. In 1908, 15 thousand women from the textile industry participated in a march in New York campaigning for shorter hours, better pay and the right to voting. A year later, the Socialist Party in America declared February 28th, the first National Women\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":709267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[35351,35471,30943,30032],"coauthors":[115219],"class_list":["post-709397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-ciolacu","tag-ciuca","tag-new-york","tag-womens-day"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n