Women take part in a procession to mark International Women’s Day at Mlimani City, Dar es Salaam, yesterday. PHOTO | ERICKY BONIPHACE
What you need to know:
What was virtually the first observance of Women’s Day was in New York on February 28, 1909. The date was later changed to March 8 at the 1910 International Women’s Conference, and became a national holiday in Soviet Russia in 1917 after women won suffrage in that emerging world power.
