- Vesna Radovic
- 8. March, 2021.
- Novosti
ORIGIN The earliest Women’s Day observance, called “National Woman’s Day”, was held on February 28, 1909, in New York City, organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of activist Theresa Malkiel. There have been claims that the day was commemorating a protest by women garment workers in New York on March 8, 1857, but researchers Kandel and Picq have described this as a myth created to “detach International Women’s Day from its Soviet history in order to give it a more international origin”. Theresa Serber Malkiel (1874-1949) was a Ukrainian-born American labor activist, suffragist, and educator. …