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\nEvery year, since the 1900s, International Women\u2019s Day has been offered as a celebration of women\u2019s achievements. This year was different. Women went to the streets not to celebrate but to demand. The international women\u2019s strike also called \u201ca day without a woman\u201d has been organized in more than 50 countries. Women took the streets in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.<\/p>\n
In 1975, Icelandic women showed that if women stopped all their activities at home and at work, the country could not function. That day started an important movement in Iceland, certainly, since the country elected the first female president, and elsewhere as well.<\/p>\n
In October 2016, women in Poland<\/a>, threatened by a total ban on abortion, organized. They were followed by women in South Korea, Argentina and Sweden. On January 21st<\/sup>, after inauguration of the new sinister president in the United States, women went to the streets and women around the world took the streets in solidarity.<\/p>\n On March 8th<\/sup>, women again showed their solidarity. They called a strike<\/a>. The strike was a call to end unfair wages, austerity, inequalities and wage inequalities in particular, precarious work, patriarchal control of women\u2019s bodies, femicides, and more.<\/p>\n It should be the responsibility of the state to bring these demands to reality. Instead, many states have moved away from their responsibilities, which is why women took the streets worldwide. The state is now more involved in supporting the neoliberal economic order than to be the guarantor of the well-being of women and men. Every year, the World Economic Forum publishes The Global Gender Gap Report<\/em>. This year\u2019s report<\/a> says that the economic gender gap has regressed to the level of 2008. According to the report, equal pay between women and men is now unattainable for another 170 years.<\/p>\n There is no natural evolution to equality, justice and dignity for women. This strike is the beginning of an international organizing and solidarity movement for women.<\/p>\n In many countries, it is not always easy to strike for women. In the United States, many school systems shut down, as in Alexandria, Virgnia; Princes Georges County, Maryland; and many other counties, because women called in to take the day off. In the United States, with each day\u2019s executive order, the danger for women and humanity becomes more real. Responding to this clear and present danger, the United States-based organizers aimed to repoliticize the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Washington, DC, the crowd gathered wearing red, the color of active and political dissent. Among the marchers, women from Latin America talked to us in front of the Department of Labor where the march started.<\/p>\n