Women on strike: ‘A Day Without A Woman’

For this special day, people have organized marches, festivals and concerts to celebrate the achievements of women in society and remind people about the work that needs to be done for female equality.

The organizers, however, have said that women who can protest will strike for those who cannot. “We can not continue to pat ourselves on the back for the local and worldwide accomplishments of our girls and women, if at the same time newspaper headlines bombard us with evidence all is not right in many of our households”, he said in a statement yesterday.

Several schools, including at least two sizeable school districts in Virginia and North Carolina, have canceled classes because a large number of teachers requested the day off.

Women should feel safe, yet nearly one woman a week is murdered by someone she has been intimate with or has known. They’re encouraging women to refrain from paid work and unpaid labor “to highlight the economic power and significance that women have in the US and global economies, while calling attention to the economic injustices women and gender nonconforming people continue to face”.

The group also said the glass ceiling was more a perception than a reality.

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”. Our needs and desires differ significantly from those of men.

Inequality knows no boundaries, and we must be careful not to focus only on our own, local challenges. The director although, said they can’t afford to close. “It is not based on a political stance or position”.

Objectives of Wednesday’s events include calling attention to the gender pay gap in which women trail men, and deregulating reproductive rights. Facebook user Catherine FitzPatrick Bond wrote. Purple is designated as the official colour of International Women’s Day as it symbolizes justice and dignity which relates to women’s equality. “As a result, schools will be closed tomorrow for students”. “We apologize for this unforeseen burden on parents and thank you for your patience and understanding”. Many others live in fear, daily. “Even if we were, I would have taken the day off to stand in solidarity against a hateful embarrassment of our country right now”. It takes a lot of courage. “Now, I’m teaching my daughters to use their voice”. Though the overall message was overtly anti-President Trump, the individual causes were many: hands off our bodies, hate is bad, climate change is real, stop the Dakota Access pipeline, trans lives matter and so on. “I see it as a pro-woman event”, Osborne told Fox News.

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