International Women's Day: 'Millions' join Spain strike

This piece of news talks about women’s day, on the  8^th of March, when women workers went out  on the streets to protest against gender inequality and sexual discrimination. Unions said that 5.3 million women had joined the strike.

Women who took part of the strike, stopped working for that day, they had to ditch domestic chores too. The thing was to show the world that if women stop, everything else stops, but as Spanish law doesn’t allow for single-gender strikes, men were welcome too, to fight for women’s rights.

There have been public people who did it and some others who didn't.

Personal opinion

I simply have no words for all the images I saw on the TV, I am so proud of what we, as women, are doing. I think it’s so important to protest when you don't agree with something, and that by fighting for what you want ,you are going to get it, despite the time it takes.

Not so many years ago, women were so insignificant to society, they were treated as stupid , as not being able to think at all. They couldn’t work because “they were only useful to be in the kitchen or to take care of children”, they couldn’t have properties, they couldn’t even vote. Nowadays, although there is still a lot of work to do, thanks to some strong women who fought for our rights, we are as we are now, and I couldn’t be more thankful. So that’s what we should keep doing, fight  against sexism to establish an equal society.

It’s true that there is a long way to go, the economic gap is still big, women earn between  13-19% less than men for doing the same job, and there are a lot less women in high positions than men. Every year in Spain, there are at least 100 hundred women murderers carried out by men, and a lot of them had restraining orders, which means that, as a country, is it not controlled enough.

Another thing I want to mentions is that, this news says literally “The ruling centre-right party, the Partido Popular (PP), said the action was "for feminist elites and not real women with everyday problems". Well, I respect everyone’s decision, but I cannot understand their position - everyday problems are the ones that matter. We do a lot of little things that are sexist and we don’t even notice, and besides, who is he or she, to say anything to anyone, everyone has the right of protest about something he or she feels unfair.

I have a lot of things to say about this, but to end it I want to say that I am proud seeing that symbol of unity, 5 million women, fighting together to get their rights

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43324406