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Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:02 PM Mar 2017

International Womens Day: Calls to Action, Words of Praise and Rallies (amazing pics!!)

(you will have to go to the link to see all the great pics!!)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/world/international-womens-day.html?_r=0
International Women’s Day: Calls to Action, Words of Praise and Rallies


Women in Diyarbakir, Turkey, flashed the victory sign during a demonstration on Wednesday as part of International Women’s Day celebrations. Credit Ilyas Akengin/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Iceland’s government announced plans to eradicate gender pay disparities by 2022. In Moscow, four feminist activists unfurled a giant poster outside the Kremlin denouncing patriarchy, and they were arrested. India’s prime minister honored a symbol of rural women’s aspirations for dignity and self-sufficiency — the toilet. The Egyptian authorities announced that they would allow female prison inmates an extra family visit this month.

Individuals and governments observed International Women’s Day around the world on Wednesday, in an outpouring of support for women’s equality and empowerment.

In Tbilisi, Georgia, women demonstrated under a symbolic “glass ceiling” to illustrate limitations on women’s empowerment.
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A rally for gender equality at Place de la République in Paris. Credit Ian Langsdon/European Pressphoto Agency

Protests were scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in dozens of cities across France. In Paris, the demonstrators planned to march from the Place de la République to the Opéra Garnier.


Unions, student organizations and feminist associations were calling for women to start striking at 3:40 p.m.: symbolically, the time of day when Frenchwomen stop being paid, they argue, because of an average 26 percent pay gap with Frenchmen.

With presidential elections coming up in April and May, the organizers of the protests unveiled a list of 20 demands, including salary increases, less temporary work and better enforcement of penalties for companies that discriminate against women, including when they are pregnant.
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Women behind a symbolic “glass ceiling” in Tbilisi, Georgia. Credit David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

In Russia, President Vladimir V. Putin lauded women, saying: “Even today, on International Women’s Day, you are still caught up in your routine, working tirelessly, always on time. We often ask ourselves: How do they manage it all?”

In South Korea, about 700 women’s rights advocates rallied in a conference hall in Seoul, calling for an end to gender discrimination and the loosening of abortion restrictions. Demonstrators carried signs reading “3 O’Clock, Stop,” a reference to the gender pay gap: Women are compensated so much less than men that they are essentially working for free after 3 p.m.
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A demonstration in Seoul, South Korea, against gender inequality in the workplace. Credit Jean Chung/Getty Images

In Yogyakarta, Indonesia, women danced during a celebration.
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Dancing during a celebration in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Credit Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images

In Colombo, Sri Lanka, traditional dancers performed.
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Traditional dancers preparing for a performance in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Credit Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

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Outside a Roman Catholic church in Manila, the capital, women wore masks smudged with fake blood to call for an end to violence against women. At a rally near the United States Embassy, female police officers holding truncheons stood guard as a women’s group, Gabriela, held a rally.
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Female police officers stood guard in Manila as a women’s group held a rally near the United States Embassy. Credit Ted Aljibe/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/world/international-womens-day.html?_r=0

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International Womens Day: Calls to Action, Words of Praise and Rallies (amazing pics!!) (Original Post) niyad Mar 2017 OP
K & R femmocrat Mar 2017 #1
I am in awe of these incredibly brave women! niyad Mar 2017 #2
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