On this day, 8 March 1918, women in Austria celebrated International Women’s Day on this date for the first time as thousands took to the streets protesting against World War I. There is a popular myth that March 8 was chosen on the anniversary of an 1857 strike of women workers in New York, and a further stoppage on the same date in 1908, however this is incorrect, as this excellent history of the radical, working class origins of International Women’s Day explains: https://ift.tt/2oYTI6j https://ift.tt/2C4yFqn
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