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Meet Two of the Women Leading the Trump Resistance
Wednesday is International Women’s Day so Yahoo Style is highlighting a few of the powerful women who are living by the year’s IWD theme, #BeBoldForChange, which calls on women to help forge a more gender-inclusive world. Just a few weeks ago, Brooklyn-born Nelini Stamp, 29, an Occupy Wall Street alum and national membership director for the progressive Working Families Party, and Elizabeth Zeldin, 37, a mom of two and nonprofit housing worker with little activist background, didn’t know each o
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What is International Women’s Day?
National Woman’s Day followed across the U.S. on February 28 1909, organised by the Socialist Party of America. Clara Zetkin, a member of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, proposed the idea of an international women’s day in Copenhagen in 1910, during a meeting of more than 100 politically-minded women from 17 countries. The first official International Women’s Day (IWD) was marked in Germany, Austria, Denmark and Switzerland on March 18 1911, with more than a million women and men taking par
