Dear ladies, members of the women

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Dear ladies, members of the women's club and Amfitheas Koukourachiou, our dear friends, good evening, On behalf of your Board of Directors welcome tonight in celebration of International Women's Day 2014. Thank you for having responded to our invitation. Please spare me a few minutes to attempt a summary of the struggles and achievements of women, primarily the greek for the acquisition and protection of the right to equality and fairness in society and work. It is impossible to cover all aspects of a few glues paper. Individual ann snitow and social rights that we enjoy women, today was not always data. The 19th century is associated with the development of industry, but also related directly to the inhumane working conditions ann snitow of women. In Europe and America, women workers worked together with minor children in factories and mines. From dawn to dusk 16 whole hours without rest. Whatever dare sit in paying kyriolechtika with blood. Impose fines for anything ann snitow he puts his mind: for talking, because they were laughing or singing, for stains from oil machines on fabrics, the stitching that was tight or too sparse. For over one hundred years the workers out big strikes and demonstrations demanding humane working ann snitow conditions, reduction of hours, equation salaries of male and female workers for equal work, elimination of child labor. The March 8 is closely connected with these events. Why; On March 8, 1857 workers in New York raftadika descend on strike and make big demonstration. Demanding better working conditions, reduce working hours from 16 to 10 hours, wage equation. The strike and major militant demonstrations were managed by the government with the police and arms and finally stained in the blood of the worker. This is to reflect on one of the most important moments of the world labor movement. The importance lies in the fact that it put in the forefront the issue of labor rights and inequality between women and men. All these efforts ann snitow of women, was, as he wrote the German Clara Zetkin, like the swallow that heralds the arrival of spring and after proposal, introduced the celebration of International Women's Day in 1910, during the Second International. In Greece, the first worker strike took place on April 13, 1892, the weavers of the works of the brothers Retsina in Piraeus. That year, employers have decided to reduce the remuneration of the worker from 80 to 65 minutes roll fabric. In 1924 the tobacco workers ann snitow on strike. Working conditions were poor, their small wages, while the invention and use of machinery brought unemployment. At the strike of tobacco workers in Kavala was killed kapnergatria Maria Chousiadou. In 1926 the strike in the factory ann snitow "PAPASTRATOS" Agrinio, the group of workers who guarded ann snitow the strike and concentrations, attended the Royal Georgantzeli worker, mother of 2 children and six months pregnant. He was killed on August 8, 1926, during the course of the fire police. In 1927 he was killed kapnergatria Konstantellos also from Agrinio. But Anastasia Karanikola on large industrial action of tobacco workers in Thessaloniki on May 9, 1936. And in Greece So women for centuries accept passive discrimination and live under the authority of the father, husband, brother, away from the public economic and social life, despite the strong presence of the liberation struggles of our country and despite a productive contribution to the progress of this country. Christianity elevates the woman as man and God's creation, putting the opposite to God in the same position with the man and gives prospects and rights had not. But this did not bring positive changes. In Christian Byzantium in the West, the Renaissance, the Turkish occupation, the position of women remains desperate. After the founding of the Greek state and the end of the first Vafarokratias "rumblings" of the Women's Movement. Fighters of the era Calliope Papalexopoulou and later Evanthia Kairi struggling afoot to open the way to education of Greek women. In 1831 operated the first school called "girls' school of Hill, Zappeion, Arsakio and mer