Berlin is the first state to introduce Women's Day on 8 March as a public holiday

In Berlin, the annual Women's Day on 8 March is now a new public holiday. The Berlin House of Representatives finally voted after the second reading for the corresponding bill of the red-red-green state government. Of the 147 MPs present, 87 voted in favor of the bill, while 60 MPs voted against.

A number of other state parliaments had introduced new holidays last year. While the northern German federal states made Reformation Day a holiday, Thuringia declared World Children's Day a holiday. The city state of Berlin is the only federal state with the Women's Day as a holiday.

This dates back to the Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen in 1910, the women's rights activist Clara Zetkin was the initiator. From 1947, the Women's Day was officially committed in the GDR - in West Germany, he gained importance only by the women's movement from the 70s.