英语六级必读好文之国际妇女节

英语六级必读好文之国际妇女节

In 1869 British MP John Stuart Mill was the first person in Parliament to call for womens right to vote. On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the right to vote.Women in other countries did not enjoy this equality and campaigned for justice for many years.

1869年，约翰 密尔是第一个在国会上提出妇女应该有选举的权利的议员0 1893年9月19日，新西兰成为世界上第一个妇女拥有表决权的国家。很长一段时间里，其他很多国家的妇女们并不能够享受到这种公平和参加选举的权利。

In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman named Clara Zetkin tabled the idea of an hiternational Womens Day, She proposed that every year in every country there should be a celebration on the same day-a Womens Day-to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties working womens clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish

parliament, greeted Zetkins suggestion with unanimous approval and thus Intemational Womens Day was the result.

1910年，第2次关于劳动妇女的国际会议在哥本哈根举行。一位名叫克拉拉 蔡特金(德国的社会民族党妇女办公室主席)的妇女提交丁关于国际妇女节的议案。她提议，每个国家每年都应该在某一天来庆祝妇女的"节日，以便表达她们的要求，参加会议的100多名妇女分别来自17个国家，她们有来自工会的、社会政党的、妇女俱乐部的，其中包括3名被选进芬兰议会的女性，并以一致通过的方式产生了国际妇女节。