It’s been 50 years since the United Nations officially recognised International Women’s Day — although it’s been over 100 years since the first. During the suffragette movement in the early 1900s, approximately 15,

International Women's Day originated from the early 20th-century labor and socialist movements, but why is it celebrated on March 8? In 1910, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed the idea of an international day to recognize women's struggles and achievements at the International Socialist Women's Conference.

On International Women's Day, the ITUC stands in solidarity with women workers, their trade unions and all progressive allies around the world, in the struggle for gender equality, women's rights, and social and economic justice for all.