Setting aside time in late winter and early spring to celebrate the achievements and value of women in societies around the world dates back to the early 1900s. One moment in the origin story of International Women’s Month is the 1911 International Conference of Working Women, held in Copenhagen, Denmark. A German leader at that event, Clara Zetkin, proposed that every country should honor a Women’s Day each year, at the same time, so that women across the globe could coordinate their organizing for their rights as human beings and as workers. At the same time, women workers in the U.S. textile industry were organizing and on strike for working conditions and respect on the job. The campaign became well known for its slogan: “The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too”, credited to Rose Schneiderman, a Polish-born U.S. labor leader, prominent in the first half of the 20th Century.