{"id":76057,"date":"2017-03-08T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T00:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=76057"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:43:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:43:02","slug":"l-a-county-recognizes-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/03\/08\/l-a-county-recognizes-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A. County recognizes International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Board of Supervisors wouldn&#8217;t get much done without women!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/adaywithoutwomen?src=hash\">#adaywithoutwomen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/internationalwomensday?src=hash\">#internationalwomensday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OneIsTheLoneliestNumber?src=hash\">#OneIsTheLoneliestNumber<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RtlVVcyGJV\">pic.twitter.com\/RtlVVcyGJV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Supervisor Hahn (@SupJaniceHahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SupJaniceHahn\/status\/839543337803665408\">March 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; A demonstration in recognition of <em>International Women&#8217;s Day<\/em> was led by elected leaders at the County Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four of five members of the Board of Supervisors, the county&#8217;s chief executive officer, its lead attorney and several other women walked out at the start of Wednesday&#8217;s board hearing to show solidarity with women rallying and protesting on International Women&#8217;s Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A lonely man am I,&#8221; Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said, urging audience members to applaud the move. &#8220;They&#8217;re all women, they run the show.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His colleagues and the other women who support them returned a few moments later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Board of Supervisors wouldn&#8217;t get much done without women!&#8221; Supervisor Janice Hahn said in a tweet that showed the empty seats with the hashtags #OneIsTheLoneliestNumber, #adaywithoutwomen and #internationalwomensday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Women&#8217;s Day, originally called International Working Women&#8217;s Day, commemorates the movement for women&#8217;s rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Donald Trump&#8217;s comments and some of his policies &#8212; including support for cutting funding to Planned Parenthood &#8212; sparked millions to take to the streets around the country on Jan. 21 for the &#8220;Women&#8217;s March.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizers of the January Women&#8217;s March called on women to strike and take to the streets Wednesday, March 8, in what they dubbed &#8220;A Day Without A Woman.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who couldn\u2019t 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;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,&#8221; organizers said on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensmarch.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.womensmarch.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critics charged organizers with being tone-deaf to the realities of low-income women and their work schedules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;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,&#8221; wrote <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> columnist Meghan Daum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Supervisors wouldn&#8217;t get much done without women!#adaywithoutwomen #internationalwomensday #OneIsTheLoneliestNumber pic.twitter.com\/RtlVVcyGJV \u2014 Supervisor Hahn (@SupJaniceHahn) March 8, 2017 LOS ANGELES &#8211; A demonstration in recognition of International Women&#8217;s Day was led by elected leaders at the County Board of Supervisors meeting Wednesday. 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