Meaning and topic of International Women's Day

International Women's Day is a day set by the United Nations to improve women's status and protect their rights. 109 years ago On February 28, 1908, the first National Women 's Day was proclaimed as the first massive demonstration of 20,000 US women' s textile workers across New York streets.

In this demonstration, protesters marched singing songs to ask for bread and roses.

Bread means improvement of the working environment and the right to live to resolve hunger, and Rose was a song that symbolizes the right to political participation

The women's movement began in Europe and the official date of the current International Women's Day is from 1975, when the United Nations recognized it From this time on, women in the world are making efforts to resolve the inequality of women beyond nationality, religion and ideology under the name "woman" on March 8.



International Women's Day is also a very important day for a country to be a holiday.
On Air India, an Indian airline, a team of women, from control to piloting, was flying ahead of International Women's Day.

The team was able to fly from New Delhi, India on March 27, to San Francisco and then back to New Delhi.

Everyone who participated in the flight was a woman, and Air India requested a Guinness listing.

On the other hand, there is a person who uploaded a message to SNS to support President Park Geun - hye in Korea in response to International Women 's Day.
The man who uploaded the message is Republican President Shin Dong-wook and he is the husband of President Park Geun-hye.