Break The Bias
We have recently observed women`s international day on 8 th March 2022 amid an ongoing pandemic crisis. The newspapers and TV channels were full of the appreciation rendered to the womenfolk of the world and rightly so. Based on the information on Wikipedia the earliest purported women`s day observance was held on 28 Feb 1909 in New York City organized by the socialist party of America at the suggestion of Theresa Malkiel. There are other claims that it was observed by women garment workers as a protest on March 8, 1857, but it is not confirmed. An international socialist conference was organized in August 1910 in Copenhagen in which the establishment of an annual woman`s day was proposed though no specific date was mentioned. There were 100 delegates from 17 countries who agreed with an idea to promote equal rights including women`s suffrage. International Women`s Day initially had no fixed dates but was generally observed in late Feb or early March. Americans continued to observ