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Clara Zetkin, the woman who claimed her gender

March 8 International Women's Day

by Omi Fernandez

On 8 March this year marks the 100th anniversary of the commemoration of International Women's Day, deserved celebration of a genre that has the ability to adapt social changes, keeping intact her motherly, her dedication to the housework, and has built-with outstanding results-work activities controlled and managed by man.

The idea came from a German activist Clara Zetkin call, a member of Germany's Social Democratic Party, and who, with Rosa Luxemburg, are considered the two most important figures in the struggle for women's liberation.

born July 5, 1857 and died on June 20, 1933, her maiden name was EISSN , even adopted her first husband, Ossip Zetkin, a Communist Russian, and father of her two children.

In 1891 he founded the newspaper "Equality" which appeared until 1907, and through which fought for the status of women in society, their liberation, equality, and remuneration right to vote.

Because the events in the United States on March 8, 1909, when 129 workers were burned in a fire in the basement of a factory located in New York, did not meet safety conditions indispensable, Clara Zetkin and advocated chose be put in place that day as the Day of Working Women, today known as International Women's Day.

was the early twentieth century, the industrial era started in the late nineteenth century brought about the inclusion of women in the workplace, which increased with the exodus men in the trenches during the First World War. This situation created the need for labor to replace the absent men by war and consequently led to a great flood of women in factories.

However, this service to the country is badly paid and feminist activists will make every effort to respect the slogan "equal work for equal pay."

However, in a sexist society par excellence, the war, everything seems to fade with the return of the soldiers, fathers, brothers, husbands, etc .- psychologically unprepared women to see their work on the same level as them. And again, she must confront and resolve the conflict that is posed as the tasks were assigned, you are suspended for the men to return them.

concern for family unity and the effort to adapt, they had to do "they", the men could not support a competition that drew from his seat of "pater FAMILIS."

were women in every country in the world who struggle every day to change this situation. And, little by little it was achieved, also a daily struggle, slowly but relentlessly, to acquire voting and vote not only in the darkroom, but the voice and vote within the family.

hook never misses a misogynist who asks why no day for women and not men's, but the answer is simple: all men and women, born of a woman's body, the miracle of life that is repeated over and over in homes across the globe, stems from the body of a woman who provides her uterus to embryo development in the fetus, and in this chair, with her breasts and who provides food to newborn.

But a woman is more than an incubator that houses the optimal conditions for the birth, is a thinking, as such entitled to education and technical training for a good development of his mental faculties, and is also , an emotional being that needs to be loved and cared for give and give love. My grandfather used to say: "man must make the woman happy so that it makes the child happy and well, getting the wheel of life keeps turning."

The film has been very instructive on the issue of the status of women in our society, we must remember as data, the film "Girls on a war footing" (1984) directed by Demme Jonatham and the performances of Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and Ed Harris. (Its original title was "Swing Shift"). Is set in New York in '41. In this film you can see clearly how the U.S. government propaganda convinced the women of "service to the nation" that make joining the factory work. And how, when past the critical moments of adaptation and overcome the taunts of older men, who were still working because their physical conditions were not suitable to arms, they harmonize with their new situation, the return home of his men intended to go back to its previous state, ignoring the crisis and anguish suffered by believing in advertising saying to them "are doing home."

All this is referring to women in the Western world, but: What about Muslim women? When you encounter this issue, the "Hijab" or veil that covers the face, is the first topic that appears. But the hijab is a demonstration of the level of attachment that every woman has respect for their religion, including the decision to use it, and change color depending on the level of commitment you have.

The truly incomprehensible to Westerners, is not the hijab, or the precepts of the Koran, which assigns equal rights to men and Muslim women, but how the Muslim man who wields power is an interpretation of the Quran which gives rise to injustices such as that man is entitled to have up to four wives while women can only have a husband for adultery and stoning deserves. Also, with regard to inheritance women are only entitled to half of what belongs to the man.

That is, there is a religious issue but an issue of power and who exercises, and that, even Muslim women have to travel a long way.

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