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THING of the month
March 2011
Decorative plate "International Women’s Day"
"In agreement with the class conscious political and trade union organisations of the proletarians of all countries the socialist women of all countries hold a Women’s Day every year which basically serves as agitation for their right to vote. […] Women’s Day must have an international character and has to be prepared carefully."
This is the resolution of the second International Socialist Women's Congress held at August 27th, 1910 at Copenhagen, on application of the German socialists Clara Zetkin, Käte Duncker et al.
International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time in 1911 in Denmark, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In GDR Women's Day was considered an important official holiday and a somewhat counter model to Mother's Day.
Entry from the "Housewife Dictionary" (published at Lux Verlag, Munich and Innsbruck in 1955): the catchword "Frau" (woman) “originally the title of a married woman, can also be carried by non-married, in this case not in front of public authorities and legally binding signatures and business".
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