mimosa scent of spring, the scent of freedom. The flower symbol of Women's Day is just the mimosa, which grows freely in the trees in spring, which is able to intoxicate a room with its scent, the mimosa has bright yellow reminiscent of sun. The sun lights our days is like the face of women.
On 8 March is Women's Day today, and maybe someone asks why a festival dedicated to the female gender. Who knows if you ask the struggles for freedom, independence and the same consciousness of female identity.
In 1908, workers in New York of a large textile factory named Cotton went out on strike to denounce the conditions of insecurity and inhumanity in which they were forced to work. The March 8, 1908 the factory owner, Mr. Johnson, blocked the exit of the factory to prevent workers leaving to protest. He was hanged in a fire in the establishment and lost 129 women in life. That event shook the hearts mature and made a slow walk to the struggles for independence and dignity of women.
Women aggregates in many feminist movements have fought in the years to reach parity with men, to see the recognition of their inalienable rights. Recognized the right to vote in our country only in 1946, equality between husband and wife obtained with the reform of family law of 1975, the right to free maternity or pregnancy termination obtained by Law 194/1978, the right to maternity in scope employment law.
civilized Western countries and these achievements have been obtained through years of struggle and cultural revolutions, but still today in many countries the woman is submissive to the will of men in Middle Eastern countries applies a macho culture of the society, women can not work nor study, are not free, are not independent does not yet have a clear identity and separated from those of their father, husband, boss.
That still remember the March 8, as international festival of women's rights.
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