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International Women's Day: Originally a day to fight for the right to vote for women, March 8th later became a day of remembrance and also a day of demonstrations for equal opportunity and solidarity. The text of a poster of the time read:

Give Women the Right to Vote


Women's Day


March 8, 1914


Women, who as workers, mothers and citizens of their communities fully fulfill their duties, who must pay taxes to the state as well as the community, up until now have been denied the the full rights of citizenship by prejudice and a reactionary mentality. The seizure of this natural human right must be the unshakable, firm intention of every woman and working woman. Here there can be no rest or repose. Come all women and girls to the

9 Public Women's Congresses


taking place on Sunday the 8th of March at 3 O'Clock in the afternoon



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