Women's Day history

Select the correct words:

The first all women_________ took place in the 1820's in the New England tailoring trades. The idea of women striking and demanding better conditions, decent __________, and shorter hours, apparently provided great amusement to the townsfolk of the peaceful mill towns.

• beats / incomes

• attacks / profits

• strikes / wages

On March 8, 1857, _________ workers in New York City marched and picketed, demanding improved working conditions, a ten hour day, and equal rights for women. Their __________ were broken up by the police.

• garment / ranks

• construction / rates

• sales / stands

Honoring the 1857 march in 1908, 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay, ____________ rights, and an end to ___________ and child labor. The police were present on this occasion too.

• voting / Sweatshops

• family planning / workshop

• freedom / mill

In 1910 at the Second International, a world wide socialist party congress, German socialist Clara Zetkin proposed that March 8th be ______________ International Women's Day, to ________________ the US demonstrations and honor working women the world over.

• announced /remember

• concealed/celebrate

• proclaimed/ commemorate

In 1917, Russian women began a strike for "bread and peace" in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers in World War 1. Opposed by political leaders, the women continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to ____________and the provisional Government _____________ women the right to vote.

• hand out / permitted

• abdicate / granted

• step down / allowed

In 1975, International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time by the United Nations. Then in December 1977, the General Assembly adopted a ___________proclaiming a United Nations Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace to be _____________ on any day of the year by Member States, in accordance with their historical and national traditions.

• resolution / observed

• instruction / shown

• order / viewed