Proposes that Women's Day be a day off for women's municipal staff "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

One month after the commemoration of International Day of Working Women, the councilor of the citizen unit Verónica Lagos Monday presented a plan to declare this day off, starting at noon, "for all women municipal staff and for anyone identifying gender".

As a justification for the request, the mayor has used the multiple inequalities that women face daily, both personally and professionally. International Women's Strike, which in Argentina had its first replica in 2017 and a new edition is expected this year.

In this regard, Lagos stressed "the importance of the participation of all women in the days, events and activities" and asked that they can withdraw from their respective jobs from 8, at noon. "Establish the necessary mechanisms to ensure guards in units that provide essential services."

History of the date

The UN set this date in commemoration of the mbadive mobilization that took place in New York on March 8, 1857, when hundreds of women in a textile factory protested against low wages, which were less than half from what men have earned for the same task.

That day ended with 120 women killed as a result of the violent police crackdown and motivated the fact that two years later, the women workers founded the first women's union.

Since then, the mobilization of women has begun to be more visible, especially after 1909, when the Socialists in the United States commemorated for the first time National Women's Day on February 28, with the demonstration of over 15 000 people who left. in the street to demand equal wages, a reduction of working time and the right to vote.

A year later, the Second International Conference of Socialist Women in Copenhagen reiterated the demand for universal suffrage, non-discrimination at work, access to education and other essential rights .

However, despite the demands and the time that has elapsed, even women continued to manifest very deep inequalities in the workplace, which led, for example, in 2017 to call a women's strike to which 70 countries have joined. United States, Germany, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, South Korea, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Spain, England, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland , Israel, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Salvador, Scotland, Sweden, Togo, from Turkey, Argentina and Uruguay.

Anyway, the history of these measures of strength originated in the women's strike in Iceland in 1975 and its next most important reaction took place in 2016, when Polish women organized a day of strike against the law that penalizes who aborted, resulting in the repeal of the rule.