One hundred delegates attended the 1910 Copenhagen conference that endorsed an international Women’s Day.
The Second International Socialist Women’s Conference met in Copenhagen on August 26–27, 1910. The delegates represented 17 countries and came from socialist women’s organizations, labor groups, and political movements. Their discussions covered women’s suffrage, social legislation, education, public health, and the status of Finland under the Russian Empire.
The conference agreed that socialist women should organize an annual day of coordinated action for women’s rights, especially voting rights. The proposal drew on the “Woman’s Day” demonstrations already held in the United States. It did not yet establish March 8 as the fixed date; early observances occurred on different days.
A common mix-up is the figure 887. That number refers to delegates at the larger International Socialist Congress in Copenhagen, which followed the women’s conference. The women’s meeting itself had 100 delegates from 17 countries.