The International Women's Day is observed on March 8 every year to highlight the struggles of women against different issues such as voting and equal pay. In this post, we take a look at five interesting facts about the day. Who invented it? The Americans. Believe it or not, the United States once had a powerful socialist party and in 1909 they came up with International Women's Day to commemorate a garment factory strike by women the previous year. German Communist leader Clara Zetkin championed the idea in Europe at the International Conference of Socialist Women in 1910. The following March 19 people marched for women's rights in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerlan...