CIVILNET.#EachForEqual: How Armenia Celebrates International Women’s Day?

March 8 marks International Women’s Day. Armenians will celebrate with presents, balloons, flowers, flowers, and flowers again. 

If in many countries that day commemorates women’s rights and gender equality, in Armenia it is a day that celebrates womanhood. 

But did you know that March 8 is officially celebrated in Armenia and in the other countries that were part of the Soviet Union for 99 years?

Let’s focus on how Women’s day was adopted in the soviet times, how the image of the soviet woman changed throughout the years and what symbolizes Women’s day now for Armenia.