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In August 1910, an International Women's Conference was organized to precede the general meeting of the Socialist Second International in Copenhagen. 
 
 
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Happy Women's Day to all the Women around the world! </blockquote>
                                                                   -CSTM Team 
 
 
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8GajpCTwVPI/Uxr5Np9UF7I/AAAAAAAAABM/PPlHFhy9qJU/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="219" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8GajpCTwVPI/Uxr5Np9UF7I/AAAAAAAAABM/PPlHFhy9qJU/s1600/images.jpg" width="320" /></a>Inspired in part by the American socialists, German Socialist Luise Zietz proposed the establishment of an annual 'International Woman's Day'  and was seconded by fellow socialist and later communist leader Clara Zetkin, although no date was specified at that conference. Delegates (100 women from 17 countries) agreed with the idea as a strategy to promote equal rights, including suffrage, for women. The following year, on March 19, 1911, IWD was marked for the first time, by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. In the Austro-Hungarian Empire alone, there were 300 demonstrations. In Vienna, women paraded on the Ringstrasse and carried banners honouring the martyrs of the Paris Commune. Women demanded that women be given the right to vote and to hold public office. They also protested against employment sex discrimination. Americans continued to celebrate National Women's Day on the last Sunday in February.
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