After universal and equal suffrage for men was introduced in 1907, the social democratic women’s movement made women’s suffrage the focus of its activities. Social Democratic women agitated at the mass demonstrations on May Day and, from 1911, on the annual Women’s Day.
At the Second International Socialist Women’s Conference in Copenhagen in 1910, it was decided to hold an annual International Women’s Day for the fight for women’s suffrage. This took place for the first time in Vienna in 1911 with a demonstration march – according to the Arbeiter-Zeitung of around 20,000 women, but also men – on the Ringstrasse.

The bourgeois-liberal women’s suffrage movement also increasingly saw itself as part of an international movement and maintained contacts with the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, founded in 1904. Austrian women had the opportunity to raise their international profile within the women’s movement in 1913, when an international women’s suffrage conference was held in Vienna on June 11 and 12. (…)
However, it was only the political upheavals following the end of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and World War I, along with the establishment of the Republic, that created new conditions for women’s rights.

Source: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

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Demonstrationszug auf der Wiener Ringstraße