a long road we thought we d made it but unfortunately we still have a really long way to go. she s putting on a brave face after five years of litigation. time to give up or keep on fighting specter says if she does give up we will see this through to the end. of. this and. back. on march the eighth one thousand nine hundred seventeen a group of female protesters sparks the russian revolution and the end of the czarist regime the event gave rise to international women s day russian women won the right to vote ahead of most western women they were also the first in the world to be allowed to