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L.A. County recognizes International Women’s Day

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LOS ANGELES – A demonstration in recognition of International Women’s Day was led by elected leaders at the County Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday.

Four of five members of the Board of Supervisors, the county’s chief executive officer, its lead attorney and several other women walked out at the start of Wednesday’s board hearing to show solidarity with women rallying and protesting on International Women’s Day.

“A lonely man am I,” Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said, urging audience members to applaud the move. “They’re all women, they run the show.”

His colleagues and the other women who support them returned a few moments later.

“The Board of Supervisors wouldn’t get much done without women!” Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a tweet that showed the empty seats with the hashtags #OneIsTheLoneliestNumber, #adaywithoutwomen and #internationalwomensday.

International Women’s Day, originally called International Working Women’s Day, commemorates the movement for women’s rights.

President Donald Trump’s comments and some of his policies — including support for cutting funding to Planned Parenthood — sparked millions to take to the streets around the country on Jan. 21 for the “Women’s March.”

Organizers of the January Women’s March called on women to strike and take to the streets Wednesday, March 8, in what they dubbed “A Day Without A Woman.”

Those who couldn’t afford a day away from work were urged to support the action by wearing red and refraining from shopping other than at small, women- and minority-owned businesses.

“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,” organizers said on www.womensmarch.com.

Critics charged organizers with being tone-deaf to the realities of low-income women and their work schedules.

“Make no mistake, March 8 will mostly be a day without women who can afford to skip work and shuffle childcare and household duties to someone else,” wrote Los Angeles Times columnist Meghan Daum.

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6 comments for "L.A. County recognizes International Women’s Day"

  1. Real women go to work and take care of their families..one more example of how liberalism is a mental disorder.

  2. If men did not show up for work, is that then the same? We are not even born equal (DNA) and we are not obviously the same. We do not need some political hacks to tells us, what we can see with our own eyes. Albert Einstein is not equal to Bill Gates or vice versa. Is a female medical doctor equal to a male psychologist or vice versa? Each service their roles, they are not equal but we can respect their roles equally.

    What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
    Confucius
    The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
    Aristotle

    • How about respecting rights by paying the exact same wages for equal work? Moron, you missed te point and since you like quotes: “Ginger Rogers did the same as Fred, but backwards and in heels”

      Ouch!

  3. if these woman decided to go ahead, take the rest of the month off? good riddance, by all means, go right ahead, that’d be fine with me

  4. We had an Immigrant’s Day protest where immigrants didn’t show up, now a Women’s Day where women didn’t show up, all as protests against the lack of respect personified by Dingbat Don. Now to get even and give himself a day off he is declaring an Idiot’s Day.

    • LOL, make sure you notify Mike, Shane Falco and any other imbecile repugnican out there, they may miss their big day!