International Women's Strike 2018
The first historical example of a national strike led by a women's movement took place in Iceland, on October 24, 1975, with paid workers and housewives taking part.
[12] Another large protest took place on October 3, 2016 in Poland, known as Black Monday, against plans to criminalize abortion, including miscarriage, and the termination of a pregnancy as a result of rape.
On October 19, 2016, in Argentina, members of the movement Ni Una Menos and other feminist organizations, called for an hour-long strike and various demonstrations, after a week with 7 femicides.
In the context of massive demonstrations in different countries, Polish activists began to connect and coordinate actions with similar movements in other countries, initially joined by Israel, Italy, South Korea, Russia, Ireland, Brazil, and Mexico forming a group to create the International Women's Strike.
[13][16] Later, in October 2017, during the 3rd ITUC World Women's Conference/Women's Organizing Assembly, 200 female trade unionists gathered from around the world in Costa Rica, and trade unionist representatives from Latin America, primarily from Argentina and Brazil, asked the unions to take part in the second International Women's Strike call on March 8, 2017.
Women's labor rights were also defended, affected by precarious work, the gender pay gap, and sexual harassment in the workplace.
These movements were globally assembled by coalitions like the Spanish Internacional Feminista and International Women's Strike.
These assemblies did not respond to a centralized organisation and were convened at a local level, generally in public spaces such as squares, with participants ranging from a few dozen to more than a thousand, such as the meeting that took place in Buenos Aires on February 8, 2018.
[23] The movement specifically denounces the Gender pay gap suffered by women in the sector, the glass ceiling, the precariousness and higher levels of temporary employment suffered by female journalists compared to their colleagues, sexual and labour harassment and calls for co-responsibility in care.
[27] The document explains that they are aware of the 'social relevance' of the work they do and they are concerned about 'the partial vision of reality that the media so often offer and in which the presence and contributions of women are lacking'.
