Women in China, Russian and other countries can get a rare holiday on this day, which can really be regarded as one of the advanced performances of socialist countries. As well as various government agencies and units, have also expressed their condolences to the hardworking "half the sky" ethnic group in various forms, such as praising women's speeches, performing programs and giving small gifts.
Merchants have also offered "Goddess Sacrifice" to promote women's products and gifts at a discount, in order to let women enjoy more happiness in consumption.
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However, who can get real satisfaction in rap and dancing? Has the atmosphere of respecting women that people want to create achieved its goal in the century of women's awakening? If women still want to find their identity through these seemingly "one more Valentine's Day" on March 8, it shows that the so-called women's liberation is far from complete.
In today's article, let's look at the history of Women's Day.
Women's Day 1857 was born in America. On March 8th of that year, women textile workers in new york took to the streets to protest against poor working conditions and low wages. In the following years, March 8 Women's Day parade gradually became a tradition, and the scale of the parade became larger and larger.
On March 8th, 1908, 15000 women workers took to the streets of new york to protest against the unequal pay between men and women and the long working hours, demanding that women be given the right to vote. It was this strike that launched the slogan "We also want bread and roses", which became the guiding spirit of women's awakening and pursuit of quality of life and self-worth for a long time.
Fight for our labor rights.
Since then, the Socialist Party, which advocated the socialist feminist movement in the United States, proposed to set up a memorial day for all women except Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. At the end of February 1909, they celebrated the first women's day.
Responding to the feminist movement of political parties are a group of left-wing activists who were active in American society at the beginning of last century. Their goal is to fight for women's rights, such as Elizabeth Flynn who joined the * * * production party and Swedish-American singer Joe Hill. But these leftists were either imprisoned or sentenced to death at that time, and their social ideology was extremely right.
From the perspective of struggle, capitalism and patriarchy, class oppression and gender oppression are two dark rivals that have existed since the birth of capitalism and have never been separated. It is not difficult to understand why feminists in the modern world are all * * * partisans.
Rosa rosa luxemburg and Clara Zetkin, two European feminist activists, directly participated in the compilation and development of Marxist theory, and their status in the world was no less than Lenin's.
Women's Day, as a memorial day with clear political meaning, had no unified date in the early days, which was based on the memorial day of important strikes or major events of the production party in various countries. Setting Women's Day on March 8th is the second international congress of * * * industrialized women held in Moscow in 1922. Since then, the Soviet Union and other countries pursuing capitalism have maintained this tradition.
Soviet stamps celebrate International Women's Day.
It played an important role in the collapse of Russian Romanov dynasty.
The Soviet government naturally did not dare to despise the power of women.
In Europe and America, although women still dare to speak out and never give up the struggle, under the cloud of cold war opposition, this anniversary with distinctive colors has become a taboo topic.
However, feminism and the left wing have never been separated. There is no * * * production party, and other left-wing parties and trade unions continue to move forward. They fought for women's right to vote, divorce, contraception and abortion.
However, since last year, Women's Day, which has been forgotten for nearly a hundred years, has re-entered American society because of the new US President Trump. Trump was kicked out of various ugly women many times during the campaign, whether it was the "prostitute door" in Russia or the recording file of "Let him touch if he has money". Trump's previous actions and remarks made no secret of his discrimination against women, which led to women's collective resentment.
So on March 8, 20 17, feminist organizations joined forces to launch the "Days Without Women" activity. Call on women in the United States and all over the world to wear red clothes symbolizing revolution and sacrifice on this day, leave work and family, and don't make any consumption in shopping malls or online, highlighting the importance of women in a "collective absence" gesture.
"A Day Without Women" Movement
It is conservatively estimated that the whole event was attended by two million people. After it spread rapidly through the Internet and other media, it not only caused waves in the United States, but also caused a sensation all over the world. Women in red gathered in the streets of major cities in the United States, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Britain and other countries to shout. At the same time, many enterprises, schools and even government agencies in these cities were forced to temporarily close down on the grounds that female employees were "missing" for one day, resulting in insufficient manpower and unable to operate normally.
After the war triggered by Trump, it may be difficult for us to realize how loud the protest was that day. However, on Wall Street in Manhattan, a world-famous financial center, there is a weak but firm statue that can be remembered by the world. This statue is called "The Fearless Girl".
The Fearless Girl was put on Wall Street on March 7 last year, the day before International Women's Day. The girl is 130cm tall, with a ponytail, her hands rested on her hips, and her chin stubbornly held high. The girl glared at the world-famous bronze cow on Wall Street.
This scene is really wonderful. The huge bronze bull-which used to represent prosperity or arrogance, has now become the representative of male power and strength. Under the glare of a little girl, the bull even showed hesitation and concession.
The cow looks really flustered.
As a flash show of Women's Day on March 8, 20 17, The Fearless Girl has been extended for a whole year beyond the expected exhibition time and allowed to stay in new york forever. Although she may not continue to fight against bronze cows, the spirit she conveyed has taken root in this world: "Even if you are weak, you must stick to it, even if you are facing a bull hundreds of times bigger than yourself."
On March 8, 20 18, women in the United States are also ready. A gathering called "We Rise Together" is brewing, proposing themes such as safeguarding reproductive justice, promoting women's labor rights, racial discrimination against women, and criticizing elite women's rights, with the aim of giving a voice to the majority of women at the bottom.
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China celebrated Women's Day on March 8th 1924. This year was the initial stage of the first national cooperation, and the ruling Kuomintang took advantage of the situation and launched the capitalist festival.
The battle to celebrate Women's Day on March 8th was magnificent, with thousands of women revolutionaries from all walks of life, including the Song sisters and He Xiangning. Slogans calling for the elimination of bad habits such as polygamy, child brides, prostitutes and foot binding. Encourage women in China to fight for their own liberation.
At that time, the fighting capacity of women in China never lost to any other country in the world. On March 8th Women's Day, 1927, a group of women took to the streets of Wuhan to protest against the bad habit of "stabbing their chests", which was called "Tian Ru Movement". It turns out that in China at that time, besides foot binding, there was another kind of shackles, that is, corsets. It is not a modern woman's bra and underwear, but a narrower and tighter corset vest. Women have to wrap their breasts tightly so that outsiders can't see them, just because there was a trend of thought that "flat breasts are beautiful" in society at that time.
Wrapping the chest, which lasted for hundreds of years, was eliminated in less than a year under the Tian Ru Movement. From then on, women took the natural curve as the beauty, and the dress style at that time even people today feel open and bold a hundred years later.
Posters are like concubines in free marriage.
It was a symbol of women's self-liberation at that time.
But it looks rather indecent today.
Who has become conservative?
With the ruling of China's * * * production party, women's rights and interests have indeed been greatly improved. China people never stop celebrating Women's Day, which is much better than western countries. China is also one of the countries with the highest female literacy rate and employment rate. There are many successful women in political and business circles, which is indeed the embodiment of decades of social progress.
Of course, the complete equality of women in China is far from being realized. Some problems still exist, such as son preference, unequal pay for equal work, lack of birth policy, domestic violence, feudalism and vulgarity. Women's rights in China still need efforts.
195 1 The commemoration of International Women's Day was held in Beijing, China.
As the tide of the international proletariat, the feminist movement was once the ideal pursued by elite scholars and progressive pioneers. From Engels to Lenin, from Sun Yat-sen to Mao Zedong, they all took it as their duty to support women's liberation and carried it forward. But now many people regard women's rights as a "cancer".
Radical feminists, unable to find the middle ground between men and women, can only strongly pursue women to reach the standards of men. Therefore, there is an impression in society that "advocating women's rights means suppressing and belittling men". Women strive to prove themselves in the workplace, but also share their livelihood, have children and take care of their families. The burden on their shoulders is getting heavier and heavier.
A hundred years ago, women's practice of "expecting to live like men" became rigid and stubborn, which made women more and more unaware of their irreplaceable strength and value. Women's rights today cannot try to completely deny and overthrow men's values; It's not that men stroke their hair, offer roses and gifts, and call them "queens" wholeheartedly. The presentation of female value does not change the concept of external things, but exists because of its own flash.
Non-discrimination and unfair treatment of anyone in society is the biggest breast of women's rights and the deepest value behind Women's Day.