Legend has it that International Women’s Day began life in New York way back in 1907 to mark the 50th anniversary of a brutal protest that took place in the city many years before. However, after digging a little deeper, historians now recognise that, in fact, the first International Women’s Day protest was in 1909 and it wasn’t until 1975, after 66 years of women taking to the streets to fight for their everyday rights, that 8th March became the official, official International Women’s Day.