Women’s Day: stories and legends!

Women’s Day: stories and legends!

Mery Barrasso

Women’s Day: stories and legends!

 The International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 to remember the various political, economic and social achievements but also the various violence and discrimination that still fill the pages of various newspapers around the world. Various stories and legends can be read about this festival but a certain date is March 8, 1917 when the workers of Saint Petersburg during the February revolution in Russia demonstrated for the scarcity of food and against the war. The legend instead tells of a factory in Cotton, in 1908, where the workers who had begun to strike for the difficult working conditions...

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