Minna Canth Day
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Minna Canth Day (Finnish: Minna Canthin päivä, Swedish: Minna Canth-dagen) is celebrated in Finland on March 19th in honor of the writer Minna Canth, who was born on this day in 1844. The day is also celebrated in Finland as the Day of Equality (Finnish: Tasa-arvon päivä, Swedish: Jämställdhetsdagen), which Canth's life's work focused on promoting.
Minna Canth (1844–1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Her work addresses issues of women's rights, particularly in the context of a prevailing culture she considered antithetical to permitting expression and realization of women's aspirations. She was the first major Finnish-language playwright and prose writer after Aleksis Kivi and the first Finnish-language newspaper woman.[1][2][3][4]