The Lower House of the Parliament has adopted a special resolution, paying tribute to females in celebration of 100 years of Women’s Day in Poland.

‘We pay respect to their everyday chores. We remember that all women who take care of their children, whose efforts are not appreciated on a daily basis; who are raising a new generation of Poles,’ reads the document.

The resolution also touches on the issue of gender equality and stresses that women have the right to receive wages equal to those of men.

The Lower House reminded that women, victims of family violence, outnumber the victims of armed conflicts. The Lower House confirmed the words of the Vienna Declaration that women’s rights are an inseparable part of human rights and as such should be respected.

International Women’s day has been observed since the early 1900s. In 1909, in accordance with the declaration by the Socialist Party of America the first national Women’s Day was observed across the US. In 1910 at a second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, the idea of an International Women’s day came up to press for women’s demands.

In 1913 International Women's Day was transferred to 8 March and this day has remained the global date for International Women's Day ever since, although it is not widely recognized. The importance of the day has waned in Poland in the last twenty years, being more associated with the efforts of communist government to make the gender feel a vital part of the socialist effort. (ab/pg)