International Women`s Day


 March 8, 1857, a group of textile workers decided to take to the streets of New York to protest the poor conditions in which they worked.

Different movements took place after that date. On March 5, 1908, New York was the scene of a strike again controversial for the times. A group of women calling for equal pay, reduced working hours to 10 hours and a time to breastfeed their children. During the strike, killed more than a hundred women in a factory burned Sirtwoot Cotton, in a fire that claimed the factory owner in response to the strike.
In 1910, during the Second International Conference of Working Women held in Copenhagen (Denmark) approved more than 100 women declared March 8 as International Day of Working Women.

Currently, it is celebrated as the International Women's Day.

Every March 8th marks the International Women's Day in honor of his struggle for years on an equality with men in society, and its integrated development as a person.

Gender equality is not only a basic human right, but its achievement has enormous socio-economic ramifications. Empowering women leverages flourishing economies, productivity and growth, says UN Women.

2008–2012 Spanish financial crisis

  The 2008–2013 Spanish financial crisis began as part of the world Late-2000s financial crisis and continued as part of the European sovereign debt crisis, which has affected primarily the southern European states and Ireland. In Spain, the crisis was generated by long-term loans (commonly issued for 40 years), the building market crash, which included the bankruptcy of major companies, and a particularly severe increase in unemployment, which rose to 24.4% by March 2012.

  Spain continued the path of economic growth when the ruling party changed in 2004, keeping robust GDP growth during the first term of prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, even though some fundamental problems in the Spanish economy were already evident. Among these, according to the Financial Times, there was Spain's huge trade deficit (which reached a staggering 10% of the country's GDP by the summer of 2008), the "loss of competitiveness against its main trading partners" and, also, as a part of the latter, an inflation rate which had been traditionally higher than those of its European partners, back then especially affected by house price increases of 150% from 1998 and a growing family indebtedness (115%) chiefly related to the Spanish Real Estate boom and rocketing oil prices.

  During the third quarter of 2008 the national GDP contracted for the first time in 15 years and, in February 2009, it was confirmed that Spain, along with other European economies, had officially entered recession. The economy contracted 3.7% in 2009 and again in 2010 by 0.1%. It grew by 0.7% in 2011. By the 1st quarter of 2012, Spain was officially in recession once again. The Spanish government forecasts a 1.7% drop for 2012.