International Women's Day: Why women celebrate March 8th. Who had the idea for this holiday, how it came to Germany and why it is celebrated on this date: the facts.
In Germany, women gathered last Sunday in Denmark, it was the beginning of March. On March 8, 1917, the Petrograd workers initiated a textile strike that led to the overthrow of Tsar Tsar. At the International Conference of Communist Women in 1921, delegates finally set March 8 as the day on which women did not have to work.