“Women's Rights are Human Rights!”
In 1908, against a backdrop of terrible working conditions and exploitation, 15,000 women took to the streets in New York protesting for shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.
The following year the Socialist Party of America announced a National Women’s Day to honour the strikers, and in 1910 it went global – the Socialist International voted for the creation of a Women’s Day to advocate for suffrage. The first International Women’s Day was held in 1911, and more than a million people turned out to rallies in Europe.
More than 100 years has passed since that first march occurred to bring an end to exploitation and harmful workplace conditions, as well as to insist on equal rights and equal pay.
Sadly, those aims are still relevant today ~ this is simply because the rights of women are not secure.
Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst of the WSPU (1906)
Pay homage to the brave women who made a stand in demanding better wages and working conditions, as well as a woman’s right to vote, and what merged into what has become known today as the Suffragette movement.