Days Until International Women's Day

About International Women's Day

March 8 traces its roots to early 20th-century labor and suffrage movements, including a 1908 garment workers' march in New York and a 1911 observance across several European countries, before the United Nations formally began marking the day in 1975 as part of International Women's Year.

It's a public holiday in a number of countries and is marked internationally with events addressing women's rights, gender equality, and, in some countries, is also celebrated similarly to Mother's Day with flowers and gifts.

The specific color purple has become an internationally associated symbol of the day in many countries, alongside green and white, colors historically tied to the early 20th-century suffrage movement in the UK.

Clara Zetkin, a German women's rights activist, proposed the idea of an annual international women's day at a 1910 conference in Copenhagen, though the specific March 8 date wasn't settled until several years later.