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On March 8, 1908, socialist women in New York mobilised by the industrial militancy of women workers from the clothing and textile trades in the city held a mass meeting for an eight hour day and women's suffrage.  Since 1975 the United Nations marked it as an annual world wide event uniting the global community of women around common goals.

These are some of the events national and local that we are aware of:
 
BUILDING EQUALITY INTO RECOVERY
Friday and Saturday, March 5th & 6th:
ICTU Women's Conference Belfast. (SIPTU delegation attending)
 
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FILM FESTIVAL
Sunday, March 7th - New Theatre, East Essex St. - Starts 1.00pm
http://www.progressivefilmclub.ie/
 
THE EQUALITY ILLUSION
Monday, March 8th, 11.00am-1.30pm
Hosted by the National Women's Council of Ireland
European Union House, Dawson St. - Admission Free
 
A NATION IN CRISIS-FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
Saturday, March 13th,9.30am-5.00pm
Hosted by the Feminist Open Forum - Kilbarrack Community Development Project
No admission - Fee-donations welcome
 
DO WE NEED QUOTAS TO ENSURE WOMEN ARE FAIRLY REPRESENTED?
Friday, March 12th, 11.00am -12.30pm
RIA House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.
 
LOCAL AND REGIONAL EVENTS - DUBLIN CITY
International Women's Day 2010: Dublin City Council Programme of Events.
http://www.dublincity.ie/Community/Pages/InternationalWomensDay.aspx
 
UNION OF STUDENTS IN IRELAND
Tuesday, March  9th - Take Back The Night
Campus Event Trinity College 7.00pm-9.00pm
 
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S WEEK
Thursday, March 11th - Hosted by The Family Resource Centre, St. Michael's Estate.
Fancy Dress - Food-Dance Theme 2010 Rock and Roll.
Wynns Hotel, Abbey Street, Dublin 1.  8.00pm-midnight  Admission: €5



File icon  100 Years of Women's Struggle (pdf, 3,708 kb)

This SIPTU publication commemorates 'A Hundred Years of Women's Struggle'. It was on March 8, 2008 that socialist women in New York - inspired by their sisters in the city's clothing and textiles industry - held a mass meeting to demand women's suffrage and an 8-hour working day. This date was to became a major landmark in the inter-woven history of women's struggle for social, economic, industrial, political and human rights - a struggle progressed mainly by socialists and trade unionists, both male and female, in many countries



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