Author: V.I. Lenin
LENIN ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8th March.
On the 4th March 1921 and in celebration of Women’s Day, Lenin wrote the following:
“The working women and the peasant women are oppressed by capital, but over and above that, even in the most democratic of bourgeois republics, they remain, firstly, deprived of some rights because the law does not give them equality with men, and secondly- and this is the main thing – they remain in “household bondage,” they continue to be “household slaves”, for they are overburdened with the drudgery of the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen and family household.”