07/03/2022
"It was not a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smoldering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion."
(Theresa Serber Malkiel)
Let's us not forget to Thank Theresa Malkiel, who established an annual National Woman's Day which was the precurser to International Women's Day.
Theresa Serber Malkiel was a Ukrainian-born American labor activist, suffragist, and educator. She was the first woman to rise from factory work to leadership in the Socialist party. As Head of the Women's National Committee of the Socialist Party of America, she established an annual National Women's Day, which now we celebrate as International Women's Day.
Malkiel believed that only socialism could liberate women, and that socialism, in turn, could not survive without the full participation of women.
Her 1909 essay, "Where Do We Stand on the Woman Questions?" expresses her frustration with this state of affairs.
Malkiel believed Women's organization was necessary to attract women to the party, and as a practice ground for women activists. Women were tired of their limited positions in the party as "official cake-bakers and money collectors," she said.
Happy International Women's Day to all the beautiful women in Bhutan. (Particularly, to all those women who drinks KOMBUCHA, hehe)
