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#OnThisDay, 8 Mar 1914, #InternationalWomensDay started to settle on a date.
The idea emerged at the International Socialist Women’s Conference in 1910, inspired by an American national women's day in February 1909. The conference took up the idea and events began to be held each year, demanding equal rights for women.
The first IWD held on 8 March was in 1914 in Germany.
The day and date was formally adopted by the UN in 1977.
@CarveHerName Asking in all honesty why there is no International Men's Day. There are those who would say the answer to that is inherently obvious, but if men are only to be villified, what does that teach boys? 
We are ALL connected.
@CarveHerName @wolfnowl We don't need and don't deserve one. The International Womens Day only exists because of us.
Respectfully, I disagree. Life is worth celebrating.