Sudoeste Festival
International Women's Day
March 8
In the year 1857, the workers of a textile factory in New York went on strike, occupying the factory, reducing the demand for a schedule of more than 16 hours to 10 hours. These workers that in their 16 hours, they received less than a third of the wages of men, were sealed in the factory where, however, be declared a fire, and about 130 women died burnt. In 1910, an international conference of women held in Denmark, it was decided, in tribute to those women, to celebrate March 8 as International Women's Day. " Since then the movement for the emancipation of women has taken shape, both in Portugal and the world.
