International Women’s Day

• Tuesday 8th March 2016

March 8^th; 2016

Today is International Women’s Day and scores of events are taking place around the world to celebrate women’s achievements.

The first National Women’s Day was held on February 28^th, 1909 in the USA. A year later, during an International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Clara Zetin – leader of the “Women’s Office” for the Social Democratic Party in Germany - prompted the idea of an International Women’s Day which would be held on the same day every year in every country. The idea – originally to promote better pay and voting rights for women - was accepted although it took some years for it to come to fruition. In 1965 IWD was transferred to March 8^th where it has remained ever since.

Berghaus have released a short film of Molly Thompson-Smith in which she calls for girls and women to take up the sport of climbing.