Wednesday, March 8 is International Women’s Day. according to the website for the Women’s March on Washington. And now, the organization is also declaring it “A Day Without a Woman.”
It’s a day when “women and our allies will act together for equity, justice and the human rights of women and all gender-oppressed people, through a one-day demonstration of economic solidarity,” the website says.
Anyone can join in making the day “A Day Without a Woman” in one or all of the following ways, according to the website: women take the day off from paid or unpaid labor (click here for a sample letter to employers and here for an out-of-office email response); avoid shopping for one day (with exceptions for small, women- and minority-owned businesses); or wearing red in solidarity.
“When millions of us stood together in January (at the women’s marches), we saw clearly that our army of love greatly outnumbers that of fear, greed and hatred,” the website says.
“Let’s raise our voices together again, to say that women’s rights are human rights, regardless of a woman’s race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, sexual identity, gender expression, economic status, age or disability.”
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