INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY - 8 MARCH 2008

While some guys are thinking what would be the very fabulous gift to their women, read some facts about the whole event and it's value.

#15,000 women marched through New York City in 1908 demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. 100 years on, the pertinence of this event is honored through IWD's 2008 global theme 'Shaping Progress'.

#In just three years time, 2011 will see IWD's Centenary - 100 years of women's united action for global equality and change. Organizations around the world have already commenced planning for their IWD Centenary celebrations.

#The first International Women's Day was launched on 8 March 1911 in Copenhagen by Clara Zetkin, Leader of the'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. This followed many years of women's campaigning dating back to British MP, John Stuart Mill, the first person in Parliament calling for women's right to vote.

#On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first self-governing nation in the world to give women the right to vote.

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