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Global women’s strike: ‘If we stop, the world stops’
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Global women’s strike: ‘If we stop, the world stops’ Global women’s strike: ‘If we stop, the world stops’ ![Global women’s strike: ‘If we stop, the world stops’]()
Global women’s strike: ‘If we stop, the world stops’ Global women’s strike: ‘If we stop, the world stops’
Women went on strike and held hundreds of rallies to protest against gender inequality on Thursday, leading to the closure of many main roads and squares.
Women across Europe, Latin American and Asia shouted their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Thursday to mark International Women’s Day, with protesters in Spain launching a 24-hour strike and crowds of demonstrators filling the streets of Manila, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Seoul and New Delhi.
Spanish women were staging dozens of protests across the country against the wage gap and gender violence. In Barcelona, protesters disrupting traffic into the city center were pushed back by riot police.
In Madrid, hundreds of women gathered in its central square to demand change. Teresa Sonsur, a 38-year-old social services agency worker, said she wanted to end workplace discrimination.
“What we see in our job in social services is that the women are doing all the hard work, dealing with the customers, but in the positions of management it is always men,” she said.
