- International Rural Women’s Day is celebrated every year on 15 October to highlight the importance of rural women and for gender equality.
- The purpose of celebrating this day is to emphasize on livelihood, education, equality for the overall welfare of rural women.
- This day was celebrated for the first time in the year 1995 at the Fourth World Conference for Women.
- The resolution to celebrate this day was officially passed by the United Nations General Assembly in the year 2007.
- International Rural Women’s Day was first celebrated in the year 2008.
- The theme of this day for the year 2023 has been kept as ‘Rural women preparing good food for all’.
