International Women's Day
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In subsequent years and on the same date, women demonstrated for the right to vote and an end to child labor. Finally, on March 8, 1911 more than one million women from all over the world celebrated the first official International Women's Day.
Sadly, that same month a tragedy occurred in the U.S. highlighting the criminally appalling working conditions faced by workers in factory after factory across the U.S. and throughout the world. On March 25, 1911, more than 145 women working in the sweatshop factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York were killed after a fire broke out in the factory and their escape from the burning building prevented because all the exists had been chained and locked.
Over the years, International Women's Day has become a time to reflect on progress and a call to continue the work of creating positive changes. Today women across the world are celebrating this day in their own way.
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