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The first International Women’s Day was celebrated in the United States on February 28, 1909. However, this Socialist Party of America initially designated this date in honor of the 1908 garment workers’ strike in New York, where women protested against unethical working conditions. In 1910, the Socialist International association met in Copenhagen, where over 100 women from 17 countries attended and drafted a proposal for the celebration of an International Women’s Day.Cheap Jewelry Sites
As a result of this event, countries including Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland held their first International Women’s Day celebration on March 19, 1911. In 1913 and 1914, International Women’s Day aligned itself with the peace movement and protests against World War I. Russia was the next country to nationally celebrate the day on the last Sunday of February. In the following year, countries across Europe celebrated International Women’s Day on or around March 8, where men and women held rallies either in protest of the war or to advocate alongside fellow activists.
In 1975, the United Nations began celebrating International Women’s Day on March 8th. Over 40 years later, the organization is working to achieve the goals set out in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to economically empower women. By 2030, governments around the world are working to close the gender inequality gap to enable women to fully participate in international societies and economies.
As of 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, there are 74.6 million women in the civilian labor force. In the United States, 47 percent of the workforce is made up of women. Nearly 70 percent of mothers with children under the age of 18 participate in the workforce, and 75 percent of these women work full-time jobs.
The data also shows that women own close to 10 million businesses in the United States, accounting for $1.4 trillion in receipts. Female entrepreneurship showed no signs of slowing down over the past year. Research commissioned by American Express shows that in 2018, the number of female-owned businesses reached 12.3 million and 40 percent of new U.S. businesses were female-founded.
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