Will women go on strike on Wednesday?
It’s the kind of statement women make regularly, whether in loud, idle threats to their children or in whispered declarations behind their bosses’ backs: “Tomorrow, I’m going on strike.”
Now, they’re being called to follow through.
Women everywhere are being urged to make a collective political statement by taking part in Wednesday’s International Women’s Strike, or A Day Without a Woman, which encourages women to skip work, ditch domestic duties, and flex the muscle they showed during marches around the world on Jan. 21.
What are they striking for? An array of issues, from reproductive freedom to free child care, from paid family leave to national health care, from an end to racist and sexual assaults to respect.
Like the women’s march on Washington in January and its sister marches across the country, the event aims to wrap in a panoply of concerns of women in the Age of Trump. With planning just as diffuse and even more hastily arranged than the women’s march, it’s unclear what kind of impact it might have.
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