International Women's Day, celebrated annually on March 8th, is also known as Women's Struggle Day, World Women's Day, International Women's Struggle Day, or Women's Day. Its focus is on the role of women in society. International Women's Day aims to draw particular attention to specific problems and issues of global importance.

International Women's Day originated from an initiative of socialist organizations. In 1908, the Socialist Party of America founded a National Women's Committee, which established a special "Day of Struggle" for women's suffrage . This fell on February 28, 1909, and was an immediate success.

In Germany, the socialist Clara Zetkin took up the idea and, together with Käte Duncker, fought for equal rights and the right to vote for women. Indeed, the first International Women's Day in Europe followed on March 19, 1911, in Denmark, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland, and Germany.

In socialist circles, however, International Women's Day had gained even more significance. This was because the strike of workers' and soldiers' wives, as well as peasant women in Saint Petersburg, on March 8, 1917, had triggered the Russian February Revolution .

Based on these events, March 8th was chosen as the fixed date for International Women's Day at the 2nd International Conference of Communist Women in Moscow in 1921.

Even though International Women's Day is now a relatively minor event in Germany, it is celebrated much more widely in Eastern European countries as a "day honoring women" and as a public holiday, much like Mother's Day is here. It is customary to congratulate adult women on International Women's Day, whether in the family, among friends, or at work, and to give them a small gift.

Especially in Russia , it is an important national holiday, celebrated at home with family or friends around a lavishly set table. Women are accustomed to being showered with small gifts by their husbands, boyfriends, business partners, and colleagues.

The famous actress Audrey Hepburn summed it up perfectly: "Women of today don't wait for a miracle, they create their own." Thus, International Women's Day celebrates the wonderful attributes and strengths of women, and of course, the political and social achievements that women have attained over the past century.