"If you want measure the value of a civilization, first look at how he treated women, the poor and the weak. "
In 1908, in New York, a few days before 8 March, the Cotton Textile Industry Workers went out on strike in protest against the conditions in which they were forced to work. The strike continued for several days until March 8, Mr. Johnson, the owner of the building, blocked all the escape routes. Then the building was set on fire (some sources speak of a fire accidental). The 129 workers trapped inside had no escape.
So, in reality, ' born March 8 as International Day of Action for women , to remember, in addition to their achievements in the political, social and economic discrimination and violence which the woman is still subject to many parts of the world.
CHRONOLOGY of events that saw the women involved in the battle for recognition of their rights:
1857
On March 8, hundreds of textile workers in New York on strike against low wages, the long working hours, child labor and inhumane working conditions. The strike was suppressed by force and, presumably, ended in a violent clash with police
1859
The textile workers of New York are groped for a union to improve working conditions.
1860 strike of women workers in New England footwear industries
1889
The Paris Congress of the Second International welcomes the principle of the right of women to employment and equal pay to men
1891
The Erfurt Programme of German Social Democracy says the 'complete equality between men and women.
1903
born in the U.S. Women's Trade Union League, composed mainly of trade unionists, which together with the campaign for the right to vote helps women to organize for better wages and for their well-being economically and politically.
UK: militant movement begins of the 'suffragettes' led by Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Women's Social and Political Union. The movement is opposed to the U.S., the most moderate of the 'suffragettes', born in 1848.
Australia: the first country where women obtain full equality with men in political voting
1907
8 March The strike is remembered in the United States with the request of a working day of 10 hours.
1908
March 8 parade in New York tailors for women workers of the right to vote is against child labor
1909
February 28. First National Day of Women in the United States.
The textile workers of New York (at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company) began a new strike by choosing as its starting date on March 8 to commemorate the struggle of 1857. Begins November 22 the so-called "Revolt of the twenty thousand" or "the Great Revolt." The strike, after a violent police repression and a series of agreements, will end Dec. 24, 1910 with the "Protocol of Peace" which recognized the right rules for the time and wages. "
Until 1913, the Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month of February, in order not to lose una giornata lavorativa.
1910
Alla Conferenza delle Donne della Internazionale Socialista (100 donne di 17 paesi) a Copenaghen, Clara Zetkin, leader socialista tedesca e direttrice del giornale socialdemocratico tedesco Gleichheit, propone che l’8 marzo sia osservato, ogni anno, come la Giornata Internazionale delle Donne.
Le donne richiedono il diritto universale al voto (e non solo in base al censo, come richiedeva il movimento delle suffragette inglesi.
Vengono richieste inoltre le indennità per la maternità anche per le madri non sposate e ci si oppone al lavoro notturno.
1911
19 marzo, in memory of the Prussian repression of 1848, one million women parading in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Germany, demanding the right to vote, the end of sex discrimination for public office and the right to vocational training.
March 25, a fire on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City kills 146 women, mostly young, Jewish and Italian. The appalling working conditions were the cause of death of women workers. In fact, they were locked in their factory. The fact led to the reform of labor legislation in the United States.
hundred thousand people participating in New York, on Broadway, the funerals of the victims.
1913
Emergence of women in St. Petersburg against the war
8 March 1914, demonstrations of women for peace throughout Europe
1917
St. Petersburg, demonstration of women against war, notes as "bread and peace". The protest will be at the root of the February Revolution that will lead to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. The interim government grants women the right to vote.
1918
Germany: women obtain full equality with men in political voting
1920
United States: women get at the federal level, the full equality with men in political voting.
1922
With the help of Clara Zetkin Lenin states that the International Women's Day is a holiday Communist
1928
United Kingdom: All British women obtained full equality with men in political voting (the right to women over 30 years was achieved in 1918)
1945
France: women obtain full equality with men in political voting
1946
Italy: Women get the full equality with men in political voting
1975
ONU: anno internazionale delle donne. Viene indetto inoltre il Decennio delle donne (1975-1985). Prima conferenza mondiale sulla condizione della donna a Città del Messico
1977
ONU: Risoluzione 32/142 della Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite (16 dicembre) che invita gli Stati membri, nel rispetto delle loro tradizioni storiche e nazionali ad indire una Giornata delle Nazioni Unite dei Diritti delle Donne e della Pace Internazionale “per ricordare il fatto che la sicurezza della pace ed il pieno godimento dei diritti umani e delle libertà fondamentali hanno bisogno della partecipazione attiva, dell’eguaglianza e dello sviluppo delle donne”. Many nations have chosen the 8 March.
UNESCO proclaimed the March 8 International Women's Day
1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women with 189 representatives of various countries.
February 13 2010: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Italian women in the streets
Italian women are mobilizing to defend their dignity. Appointment in city squares with the slogan and say to men: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? It's time to show friendship towards women
UNICEF Report provides alarming figures on violence against women and against children.
In large part this is family violence, traditional practices and religious discrimination related to codes or the lack of protective laws.
* Approximately sixty million women are "missing" because of sex discrimination, especially in South and West Asia, China and North Africa.
* In the U.S., where the total number of crimes of violence against women has been steadily increasing over the past 20 years, every nine seconds a woman is maltrattamenti fisici da parte del partner.
Soltanto una piccolissima percentuale degli omicidi viene assicurata alla giustizia.
*Ogni anno circa due milioni di ragazze subiscono mutilazioni genetiche, con una media di circa 6000 operazioni al giorno.
Il numero totale di bambine che hanno subito questo genere di mutilazione è di 130 milioni, in almeno 28 paesi.
Si tratta spesso di pratiche di natura religiosa, molto diffuse in alcune zone dell’Africa e attuate anche quando la famiglia si è trasferita in altri paesi.
* In alcuni paesi del Medio Oriente e dell’America Latina, i mariti sono spesso prosciolti dall’accusa murder of his wife, guilty of being unfaithful or having assumed attitudes harmful to the balance of the family.
* Rape as a weapon of war has been documented in seven countries in recent years, although it is common for centuries.
* Each year, more than one million minors, mainly girls, are forced into prostitution, especially in Asia.
* The selection of the unborn on the basis of sex is the practice now banned in China, Korea and India, but equally widespread.
* In India, more than five thousand women are killed each year because their dowries are considered inadequate by-laws.
In 1908, in New York, a few days before 8 March, the Cotton Textile Industry Workers went out on strike in protest against the conditions in which they were forced to work. The strike continued for several days until March 8, Mr. Johnson, the owner of the building, blocked all the escape routes. Then the building was set on fire (some sources speak of a fire accidental). The 129 workers trapped inside had no escape.
So, in reality, ' born March 8 as International Day of Action for women , to remember, in addition to their achievements in the political, social and economic discrimination and violence which the woman is still subject to many parts of the world.
CHRONOLOGY of events that saw the women involved in the battle for recognition of their rights:
1857
On March 8, hundreds of textile workers in New York on strike against low wages, the long working hours, child labor and inhumane working conditions. The strike was suppressed by force and, presumably, ended in a violent clash with police
1859
The textile workers of New York are groped for a union to improve working conditions.
1860 strike of women workers in New England footwear industries
1889
The Paris Congress of the Second International welcomes the principle of the right of women to employment and equal pay to men
1891
The Erfurt Programme of German Social Democracy says the 'complete equality between men and women.
1903
born in the U.S. Women's Trade Union League, composed mainly of trade unionists, which together with the campaign for the right to vote helps women to organize for better wages and for their well-being economically and politically.
UK: militant movement begins of the 'suffragettes' led by Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Women's Social and Political Union. The movement is opposed to the U.S., the most moderate of the 'suffragettes', born in 1848.
Australia: the first country where women obtain full equality with men in political voting
1907
8 March The strike is remembered in the United States with the request of a working day of 10 hours.
1908
March 8 parade in New York tailors for women workers of the right to vote is against child labor
1909
February 28. First National Day of Women in the United States.
The textile workers of New York (at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company) began a new strike by choosing as its starting date on March 8 to commemorate the struggle of 1857. Begins November 22 the so-called "Revolt of the twenty thousand" or "the Great Revolt." The strike, after a violent police repression and a series of agreements, will end Dec. 24, 1910 with the "Protocol of Peace" which recognized the right rules for the time and wages. "
Until 1913, the Day is celebrated on the last Sunday of the month of February, in order not to lose una giornata lavorativa.
1910
Alla Conferenza delle Donne della Internazionale Socialista (100 donne di 17 paesi) a Copenaghen, Clara Zetkin, leader socialista tedesca e direttrice del giornale socialdemocratico tedesco Gleichheit, propone che l’8 marzo sia osservato, ogni anno, come la Giornata Internazionale delle Donne.
Le donne richiedono il diritto universale al voto (e non solo in base al censo, come richiedeva il movimento delle suffragette inglesi.
Vengono richieste inoltre le indennità per la maternità anche per le madri non sposate e ci si oppone al lavoro notturno.
1911
19 marzo, in memory of the Prussian repression of 1848, one million women parading in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Germany, demanding the right to vote, the end of sex discrimination for public office and the right to vocational training.
March 25, a fire on the top floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City kills 146 women, mostly young, Jewish and Italian. The appalling working conditions were the cause of death of women workers. In fact, they were locked in their factory. The fact led to the reform of labor legislation in the United States.
hundred thousand people participating in New York, on Broadway, the funerals of the victims.
1913
Emergence of women in St. Petersburg against the war
8 March 1914, demonstrations of women for peace throughout Europe
1917
St. Petersburg, demonstration of women against war, notes as "bread and peace". The protest will be at the root of the February Revolution that will lead to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II. The interim government grants women the right to vote.
1918
Germany: women obtain full equality with men in political voting
1920
United States: women get at the federal level, the full equality with men in political voting.
1922
With the help of Clara Zetkin Lenin states that the International Women's Day is a holiday Communist
1928
United Kingdom: All British women obtained full equality with men in political voting (the right to women over 30 years was achieved in 1918)
1945
France: women obtain full equality with men in political voting
1946
Italy: Women get the full equality with men in political voting
1975
ONU: anno internazionale delle donne. Viene indetto inoltre il Decennio delle donne (1975-1985). Prima conferenza mondiale sulla condizione della donna a Città del Messico
1977
ONU: Risoluzione 32/142 della Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite (16 dicembre) che invita gli Stati membri, nel rispetto delle loro tradizioni storiche e nazionali ad indire una Giornata delle Nazioni Unite dei Diritti delle Donne e della Pace Internazionale “per ricordare il fatto che la sicurezza della pace ed il pieno godimento dei diritti umani e delle libertà fondamentali hanno bisogno della partecipazione attiva, dell’eguaglianza e dello sviluppo delle donne”. Many nations have chosen the 8 March.
UNESCO proclaimed the March 8 International Women's Day
1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women with 189 representatives of various countries.
February 13 2010: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? Italian women in the streets
Italian women are mobilizing to defend their dignity. Appointment in city squares with the slogan and say to men: IF NOT NOW, WHEN? It's time to show friendship towards women
In large part this is family violence, traditional practices and religious discrimination related to codes or the lack of protective laws.
* Approximately sixty million women are "missing" because of sex discrimination, especially in South and West Asia, China and North Africa.
* In the U.S., where the total number of crimes of violence against women has been steadily increasing over the past 20 years, every nine seconds a woman is maltrattamenti fisici da parte del partner.
Soltanto una piccolissima percentuale degli omicidi viene assicurata alla giustizia.
*Ogni anno circa due milioni di ragazze subiscono mutilazioni genetiche, con una media di circa 6000 operazioni al giorno.
Il numero totale di bambine che hanno subito questo genere di mutilazione è di 130 milioni, in almeno 28 paesi.
Si tratta spesso di pratiche di natura religiosa, molto diffuse in alcune zone dell’Africa e attuate anche quando la famiglia si è trasferita in altri paesi.
* In alcuni paesi del Medio Oriente e dell’America Latina, i mariti sono spesso prosciolti dall’accusa murder of his wife, guilty of being unfaithful or having assumed attitudes harmful to the balance of the family.
* Rape as a weapon of war has been documented in seven countries in recent years, although it is common for centuries.
* Each year, more than one million minors, mainly girls, are forced into prostitution, especially in Asia.
* The selection of the unborn on the basis of sex is the practice now banned in China, Korea and India, but equally widespread.
* In India, more than five thousand women are killed each year because their dowries are considered inadequate by-laws.
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