Once again, we observe International Women's Day on March 8, an annual event whose beginnings go back to Feb. 28, 1909, as "Women's Day" to mark New York City's garment industry strike led by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

It was a day that honored the women who bravely protested miserable labor conditions.

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