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Five Women make their celebration for International Women's Day. With a Beach side Sauna followed by a dip in the icy Atlantic
For more than a century, people around the world have marked International Women's Day on 8 March.
But what is the day for, and why does it matter?
How did International Women's Day start?
International Women's Day (IWD) grew out of the labor movement.
In 1908, when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter working hours, better pay and the right to vote.
A year later, the Socialist Party of America declared the first National Woman's Day.
The idea to make it an international event came from Clara Zetkin, a communist activist and advocate for women's rights.
In 1910, she raised it at an International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen.
Her suggestion was unanimously backed by the 100 women from 17 countries who were at the conference.
The first International Women's Day was celebrated in 1911, in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
The United Nations (UN) started marking the event in 1975. The first theme adopted by the UN (in 1996) was "Celebrating the Past, Planning for the Future".

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