International Women’s Day on Friday

International Women’s Day is being observed on Friday (March 8) across the country as elsewhere in the world with the theme 'Investing in women: Accelerate progress'.

Different women, social and political organisations have taken separate programmes to observe the International Women's Day.

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on March 8 every year.

After the Socialist Party of America organised a Women's Day on February 28, 1909 in New York, the 1910 International Socialist Women's Conference suggested a Women's Day to be held annually.

After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there.

The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations.