In a survey conducted by YouGov, an opinion research institute, on behalf of DPA, 47 percent of respondents vowed in favour of Women’s Day becoming a national holiday – and hence day off from work. Five percent of those surveyed thought that Women’s Day should become a public holiday in some German states, but not necessarily in all of them. So far, this is the case in only one of Germany’s 16 federal states: Women’s Day (or ‘Frauentag’ as it’s known in German) became a public holiday in Berlin in 2019. Women’s Day was first organised in Germany and neighbouring countries on March 19th 1911, at the suggestion of German Social Democrat Clara Zetkin. READ ALSO: German word of the day: Frauentag

Source: The Local March 05, 2021 12:00 UTC