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"Google&amp;#039;s search homepage has today been devoted to International Women&amp;#039;s Day 2013.  The doodle features illustrations of many different women&amp;#039;s faces, and clicking on it leads through to a variety of web links related to the celebration of women&amp;#039;s rights.   International Women&amp;#039;s Day was born in the early 1900s, at a time of great unrest and debate about the role of women in society. The idea for the day came from the socialist movement, and was first put forward at the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen in 1910. Clara Zetkin, the leader of the &amp;#039;Women&amp;#039;s Office&amp;#039; for the Social Democratic Party in Germany, suggested the idea as a way to create an annual celebration to push the rights and demands of women.  The inaugural International Women&amp;#039;s Day (IWD) was honoured in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on March 19, 1911. More than 1 million women and men attended IWD rallies on the day, campaigning for women&amp;#039;s rights to work, vote, and not face discrimination.  Just a week later, on March 25, more than 140 working women were killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, shining the light on the state of working conditions in the US. This tragic event became the subsequent focus of IWD campaigning. The annual date for IWD shifted to March 8 after Russian women started the strike for &amp;quot;bread and peace&amp;quot; in 1917 against the Czar. The strike started on February 23 on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, which in the Gregorian calendar was March 8. Following this, IWD grew to a global event backed by the United Nations and governments around the world.  It is now marked in hundreds of countries around the world every year on March 8, with events held to inspire women and celebrate their achievements.  Various global corporations have got on board with the celebration, including Google, which devotes its homepage to the day every year. The US also designates the whole of March as &amp;#039;Women&amp;#039;s History Month&amp;#039;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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