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According to the statement made by the Socialist Party of America, February 28th was the primary date to be marked as the International Day of Women’s Rights all around the United States, and until the end of the year of 1913, women were celebrating that day on the last Sunday of February. During the Second International Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen in the capital city of Denmark in 1910, Clara Zetkin, of German origin, who was the head of the “Women’s Office” of Social Democratic Party of Germany, tabled celebrating International Women’s Day as an annual holiday. She suggested establishing a specific day all over the world as an international holiday for women that would incorporate the whole ideological essence of the women’s rights protection. More than 100 women from 17 various countries were participating in the conference, presenting diverse unions, socialist parties, and clubs of working women. Three women that were chosen as members of Finnish parliament were also present. All the women unanimously accepted Zetkin’s proposition, and the Day of Women became an internationally celebrated holiday.
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