''Die Gleichheit'' (Equality) was a Social Democratic bimonthly magazine issued by the women's proletarian movement in

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from 1890 to 1923. For many years it was the official organ of the international women's socialist movement.

Foundation

''Die Gleichheit'' had appeared in early 1890 as ''Die Arbeiterin'' (The emaleWorker), a successor to the short-lived '' Die Staatsbürgerin'' (The Citizeness) founded by Gertrud Guillaume-Schack and banned in June 1886. ''Die Arbeiterin'' was published by the Social Democrat

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for more than a year from 1890–91 with little success. In January 1892, with the magazine facing financial ruin, editorial direction was placed in the hands of

Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the ...

(1857–1933) by Heinrich Dietz, the magazine's

Social democrat Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soc ...

-backing publisher. Zetkin renamed the paper ''Die Gleichheit'' when she took over.

History

Zetkin edited ''Gleichheit'' until 1917. At the First International Conference of Socialist Women in Stuttgart, 1907 it was reported that the magazine had a distribution of 70,000 copies. The editorial board of ''Die Gleichheit'' was elected as the central organ of the Women's International Council of Socialist and Labour Organizations until the next international congress. By 1910 ''Die Gleichheit'', the central socialist organ for women workers, had a circulation on 80,000. At the Second International Women's Conference in Copenhagen in 1910 ''Die Gleichheit'' was once again recognized as the official organ of the international women's socialist movement. From 1919 to 1922 the paper was edited by Clara Bohm-Schuch. The paper ceased publication in 1923.

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