New of the International Women's Day

Manifestation 8th of March

Against gender violence. For the right to freely decide their maternity. Against the wage gap. To stop discrimination. Hundreds of thousands of women mobilized on Wednesday in several countries to claim equality, something that in the XXI century is still an entelequia. In Spain, Poland, Turkey, the US or Argentina took to the streets - many of them in black - to claim their rights, to show their strength and to protest against the sexist drift of some governments. The pandemic of macho crimes or the fear of Donald Trump's ultraconservative agenda and its global impact pushed women to mobilize. And they not only marched, they also stopped partially working, consuming and participating in domestic care. A kind of female strike to show what would happen if half of humanity were stopped. If women stop, they cry, they stop for the world.
We mobilize because we can't discriminate half of humanity and nothing happens. We stopped because we don't want to be invisible, because we can go out and claim our role in the world, "demanded Gloria Garcia, an official of 52 years, one of the protest actions of Madrid. In the popular Plaza de Cibeles illuminated violet, the historic color of the struggle of women, behind banners with slogans like "Together and strong, feminists always", "International Unemployment against Patriarchy" Maria Gabian and her friends, all 18 and 19, claimed the need to maintain the struggle. "There is more sexism in the television and in the marketing. It is so ingrained that it is no longer seen, "said Gabián.


Vocabulary learned:
claim: afirmation or declaration
ingrained: attitude (fixed, firm)
wage gap: regular pay-discrepancy

http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2017/03/08/actualidad/1489004478_138303.html