Current Affairs: Days
International Women’s Day: 08 March
- The International Women’s Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year, to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women.
- The theme for International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world’.
- According to the UN Women website, it aims to ‘celebrate the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic’.
- The hashtags for the day will be #IWD2021 and #InternationalWomensDay.
- The date of March 8 was chosen for the celebration as it marks the day when women in Soviet Russia started protests for the right to vote which they were granted in 1917.
- The first National Woman’s Day was observed in the United States on 28 February.1909.
- The day was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations.
