International Women’s Day has been designated as an official United Nations observance since 1975, but its origins go back much further (From 2018)
during World War I are examples of these early 20th century global links.
These two suffragettes carried their banner to a White House gate on June 22, 1917. The message indicts Woodrow Wilson, but he later came out in favor of the Nineteenth Amendment. The words"free Russia" refer to the women's voting rights introduced by the provisional regime that had overthrown the Czar in March.However, the celebration of International Women’s Day itself did not hold as much weight in the U.S.
And Russia is by no means the only country where women continue to face challenges to their rights. “Certainly, there are people and leaders in the U.S. who would like to turn back the clock too,” says Ruthchild. In the time since President Trump’s election in 2016 and the Women’s March in early 2017, American women have been
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