британский язык 4 упр

In our country, March 8 is celebrated as a holiday of mothers, grandmothers, sisters and all women in General. All men, no matter how old they are six or sixty secretly prepare gifts for their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, and are especially attentive to all women on this day. And all this because March 8 is an international women's day. Why 8 March? In 1910, women from around the world gathered in Copenhagen, Denmark, to unite in the struggle for their rights. Women have always had a harder life: for the same work with men, they received a lower salary, they could not choose their profession, even they were not allowed to study. There are still countries in which a woman's life is limited to the home, children, where a woman can not open her face with strangers. At the conference, Clara Zetkin, a German revolutionary, proposed to establish the international women's day as a day of solidarity of women of all countries against oppression and inequality, and decided to celebrate it on March 8. March 8 was not chosen by chance. On this day in 1908 in new York, thousands of women took to the streets. Many walked with children in their arms. Women demanded justice and equal rights with men. The demonstration was dispersed by the authorities. In memory of this event since 1911, March 8 began to be celebrated as a holiday of solidarity of women around the world. In Russia it is celebrated since 1913: March 8, 1913, many Russian women gathered in St. Petersburg for an event called "Scientific morning on women's issues." After the February revolution of 1917 workers of the revolutionary Petrograd celebrated the international women's day with political rallies and demonstrations. After the victory of October in our country the day of March 8 is celebrated solemnly and festively.  In 1965, international women's day was declared a day off. This was done in honor of the merits of Soviet women during the great Patriotic war, for their contribution to the strengthening of friendship between peoples and the struggle for peace.