INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
08.03.2025
International Women's Day (8 March, 2025) is a day for us to join voices with people around the world and shout our message for equal rights loud and clear: "Women's rights are human rights!" We celebrate all women, in all their diversities. We embrace their facets and intersections of faith, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual identity, or disability. We celebrate those who came before us, those who stand beside us now, and those who will come after. It's a time to celebrate the achievements of women, whether social, political, economic or cultural. In 1908, against a backdrop of terrible working conditions and exploitation, 15,000 women took to the streets in New York protesting for shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. The next year the Socialist Party of America announced a National Women's Day to honour the strikers, and in 1910 it went global - the Socialist International voted for the creation of a Women's Day to advocate for suffrage. The first International Women's Day was held in 1911, and more than a million people turned out to rallies in Europe. For most of the 20th century International Women's Day was acknowledged and celebrated by people at the grassroots level, a rallying point for social justice. It wasn't until 1975 - International Women's Year - that the United Nations adopted International Women's Day on 8 March, when it is still held.
International women's day was celebrated by Physical science department. One of the student of the physical science department Arunima. S. delivered a speech on the history and relevance of celebrating international women's day.