International Women's Day: Women's struggles & this year's message

H International Women's Day is a landmark date in which women from one side of the planet to the other, celebrate how far they have come in every field, whether we refer to work, the economy or politics.

The women's struggle began in 1908, when 15.000 women demonstrated in the streets of New York, demanding the right to vote, better wages and shorter working hours. In 1909, the first International Women's Day is celebrated on February 28, commemorating the 1908 demonstration in the United States.

1910, the Clara Zetklin, leader of the women's section of the Socialist Democratic Party of Germany, proposes the establishment of International Women's Day, in all countries, a proposal that was accepted at the conference held in Copenhagen, in which 100 women from 17 countries received days for the first time in 1911, on March 19, Women's Day celebrated in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.

In 1913, and in order to protest the women in Europe about the First World War, Women's Day is celebrated on March 8. However, the recognition of Women's Day by the United Nations comes much later, specifically in 1975 under the rise of the feminist movement, when the 8^η March as an official day to celebrate the achievements of women.

This year's message for International Women's Day is #PressforProgress, in which women and men are called to take action to make equality at every level a reality. Combined with the slogan #metoo and #timeisup after revelations of sexual abuse in Hollywood last year, women are taking action and there is a strong global momentum fighting for gender equality.

Referring to this year's Women's Day celebration, Mr Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres. Secretary General of the United Nations said:

 "Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is unfinished business, and its completion is the greatest human rights challenge in the modern world."

International Women's Day, it knows no borders, does not concern specific organizations or groups but belongs to women everywhere and in what they have achieved and are expected to achieve in the future.