A group of 300 women buy a Medieval French Chateau so they can have a place for women to gather. Would you buy a castle with other people in another country?
International Women’s Day wasn’t created to celebrate women. It didn’t start with flowers or hashtags
It was created because women were dying and they started getting angry
In the early 1900s, thousands of women worked in factories across New York City.
They worked 14–16 hour shifts, earned a fraction of men’s wages, and had almost no legal protection.
In 1908, around 15,000 women marched through the city demanding better pay, shorter hours, and the right to vote.
Many people dismissed them as hysterical and rebellious.
But they didn’t stop.
In 1910, German activist Clara Zetkin stood before a conference in Copenhagen and proposed something radical:
A global day where women would rise together and demand equality.
Then a disaster changed everything.
In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City killed 146 garment workers.
Most of them were young immigrant women.
The factory owners had locked the doors to stop workers from taking breaks.
When the fire started, many couldn’t escape.
Some workers jumped from the building as crowds watched below.
The tragedy shocked the world and intensified the fight for women’s rights and safer working conditions.
Decades later, the United Nations officially recognized International Women’s Day on March 8th 1975.
So when people say “Happy International Women’s Day,” remember:
This day didn’t start with celebration.
It started with protest, anger, and women refusing to accept the way the world treated them.
these are the type of privileges i randomly remember i have and then i burst into tears because we’ve have really come such a long way. forever grateful to all the women who shaped this path for me.