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Women's Strike (other)
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Women's strike may refer to: * Women's Strike for Equality (1970) * 1975 Icelandic women's strike * All-Poland Women's Strike - Strajk kobiet (since 2016) * International Women's Strike (2017) * Day Without a Woman (2017) * 2018 Spanish women's strike * 2019 Swiss women's strike * Global Women's Strike * Women Strike for Peace See also * Sex strike * Women's March Women's March may refer to: * Women's March on Versailles, a 1789 march in Paris * Women's Sunday, a 1908 suffragette march in London * Woman Suffrage Procession, a 1913 march and rally in Washington, D.C. * Women's March (South Africa), a 1956 mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Strike For Equality
The Women's Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively gave American women the right to vote.Gourley, Catherine. ''Ms. and the Material Girl: Perceptions of Women from the 1970s to the 1990s''. 1st. Minneapolis, MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2008. 5–20. Print. The rally was sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW). Estimates ranged as high as 50,000 women at the protest in New York City and more protested throughout the country. At this time, the gathering was the largest on behalf of women in the United States. The strike, spearheaded by Betty Friedan, self-stated three primary goals: free abortion on demand, equal opportunity in the workforce, and free childcare. The strike also advocated for other second wave feminist goals more generally, such as political rights for women, and social equality in relationship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Icelandic Women's Strike
On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland’s economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy and unfair employment practices". It was then publicized domestically as Women's Day Off (). Participants, led by women's organizations, did not go to their paid jobs and did not do any housework or child-rearing for the whole day. Ninety percent of Iceland's female population participated in the strike. Iceland's parliament passed a law guaranteeing equal pay the following year. History Icelandic women who worked outside of the home before 1975 earned less than sixty percent of what men earned. The United Nations announced that 1975 was going to be International Women's Year. A representative from a women's group called the Redstockings put forward the idea of a strike as one of the events in honor of it. The committee decided to call the strike a "day off" since they thought that this term was mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-Poland Women's Strike
The All-Poland Women's Strike or Polish Women's Strike ( pl, Ogólnopolski Strajk Kobiet, OSK) is a women's rights social movement in Poland, established in September 2016. It was set up in protest against the rejection by the Sejm of the Polish Parliament of the bill "Save Women", which was considered by the Sejm in parallel to the project "Stop Abortion". The movement was responsible for the organization of Black Monday, a protest action, involving various forms of strike, that took place simultaneously in 147 Polish cities, towns and villages. Structure and key people In October 2017, Marta Lempart was head of All-Poland Women's Strike. While OSK was a key organiser of the September 2016 Black Protests, the protests themselves were decentralised. The writer Klementyna Suchanow was one of OSK's leaders who proposed the 26 October 2020 "walk" to the house of ''de facto'' leader of Poland Jarosław Kaczyński, which turned into a 10,000-person protest. Suchanow described the tac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Women's Strike
The International Women's Strike, also known as Paro Internacional de Mujeres, was a global movement coordinated across over 50 countries and coinciding with International Women's Day, on 8 March 2017 and 2018. The United Nations announced the theme of "Women in the Changing World of Work: Planet 50-50 by 2030", calling for gender equality around the globe. In the United States, the strike was branded as "Day Without a Woman". Background On 3 October 2016, women in Poland organized a nationwide strike following a Polish parliamentary decision to consider a ban on abortion that would criminalize all terminations. The day became known as Black Monday. 19 October 2016, saw the #NiUnaMenos protest against femicide in Argentina, a large-scale response to the murder of 16-year-old Lucía Pérez. Similar demonstrations took place in other Latin American countries including Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, and others. A week later, on 25 October 2017, Brazil held its own #NiUnaMenos s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Day Without A Woman
A Day Without a Woman was a strike action held on March 8, 2017, on International Women's Day. The strike, which was organized by two different groups—the 2017 Women's March and a separate International Women's Strike movement—asked that women not work that day to protest the policies of the administration of Donald Trump. Planning began before Trump's November 2016 election. The movement was adopted and promoted by the Women's March, and recommended actions inspired by the "Bodega Strike" and the Day Without Immigrants. Organizers in the U.S. encouraged women to refrain from working, spending money (or, alternatively, electing to shop only at "small, women- and minority-owned businesses"), and to wear red as a sign of solidarity. Platform The strike was organized by international coalitions of activists with a range of articulated demands. Platforms of US-based organizers The American strike platform demanded "open borders," freedom from "immigration raids," and "the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Spanish Women's Strike
On 8 March 2018, International Women's Day, Spanish women went on strike for the day to denounce sexual discrimination, domestic violence and the wage gap. Description Participants, led by women's organizations and the trade unions, did not go to their paid jobs, especially in education, and did not do any housework or child-rearing for the whole day; some groups additionally called for a consumption strike. The unions estimate that 5 million women participated in the strike, with massive demonstrations taking place in the most populated cities of the country. The action was part of the annual International Women's Strike The International Women's Strike, also known as Paro Internacional de Mujeres, was a global movement coordinated across over 50 countries and coinciding with International Women's Day, on 8 March 2017 and 2018. The United Nations announced the .... References {{Portal bar, Feminism, Society, Spain Protests in Spain 2018 in Spain General strike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Swiss Women's Strike
Women in the capital of Switzerland and in surrounding communities went on strike in June 2019.] Hundreds of thousands of Swiss women went on strike to protest gender inequalities on 14 June 2019. The women's strike, known as ''Frauenstreik'' (German) and ''Grève des Femmes'' (French) online, consisted of demonstrations in the country's major municipalities for equal pay, recognition of unpaid care work, laws protecting women from harassment sexually and physically, and governmental representation. Women were fighting for equality and respect. Before the strike took place in June 2019, it had been planned for a year. Many women were ready for the opportunity to voice their opinions either for the first time or for a second time after the first strike in 1991. The strike began on 14 June 2019 in the early morning. Many women took off work and did not do household responsibilities to show the government their seriousness. These strikes took place in many major communities around ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Strike For Peace
Women Strike for Peace (WSP, also known as Women for Peace) was a women's peace activist group in the United States. In 1961, nearing the height of the Cold War, around 50,000 women marched in 60 cities around the United States to demonstrate against the testing of nuclear weapons. It was the largest national women's peace protest during the 20th century. Another group action was led by Dagmar Wilson, with about 1,500 women gathering at the foot of the Washington Monument while President John F. Kennedy watched from the White House. The protest helped "push the United States and the Soviet Union into signing a nuclear test-ban treaty two years later". Due to the time period the group's leaders had been raised, between the First-wave feminism and the Second-wave feminism movements, their actions and pleas leaned towards female self-sacrifice rather than towards their self-interests. However, they pushed the power of a concerned mother to the forefront of American politics, transfo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sex Strike
A sex strike (sex boycott), or more formally known as Lysistratic nonaction, is a method of nonviolent resistance in which one or more persons refrain from or refuse sex with partners until policy or social demands are met. It is a form of temporary sexual abstinence. Sex strikes have been used to protest many issues, from war to gang violence to policies. The effectiveness of sex strikes is contested. Historical Ancient Greece The most famous example of a sex strike in the arts is the Greek playwright Aristophanes' work ''Lysistrata'', an anti-war comedy. The female characters in the play, led by the eponymous Lysistrata, withhold sex from their husbands as part of their strategy to secure peace and end the Peloponnesian War. Nigeria Among the Igbo people of Nigeria, in pre-colonial times, the community of women periodically formed themselves into a Council, a kind of women's trade union. This was headed by the Agba Ekwe, 'the favoured one of the goddess Idemil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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