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June Garcia was famous in her class for her restless spirit, which repeatedly led her to have more than one discussion when defending her ideals; for her permanent battle against patriarchy, and for leading the feminist fight in her class. June García Ardiles, class 2014, has just finished the first step in this crusade: Together with her friend Josefa Araos, she recently launched her first book: Tan linda y tan solita (So pretty and so lonely), which deals with the matter of feminism from a daily perspective through the main character Julieta, who represents many women facing the machismo of the Chilean society day after day.

June García is in third year of Law at Universidad de Chile, but - as she says- one of her great passions is writing, so she would like to devote an important part of her time to literature. Today, she speaks about her first experience as writer and how important it is - in her opinion - that future generations are concerned with contributing their time and knowledge in furtherance of substantial transformations in society.
What led you to write this book? With my friend Josefa, the co-author of the book, we worked in the matter of feminism in different places and shared a common diagnosis about the general people's state of knowledge about feminism. We saw that people did not really understand what we were referring to, our fights, what we wanted to reach and how the feminist fight is for us something most important currently in Chile. We wanted to write a book transmitting key basic concepts, answering frequent questions, debating common senses, and through the life of Julieta who is the main character of the book, disclosing the injustice we women suffer. In short, the drive that led me to write this book was the desire I have for this world to change for better and become a place where women can live with dignity, freedom and happiness. What type of experiences are those that have marked you most and have led you to feel in disadvantage against the male gender only for being a woman? In truth there are many experiences and I don't like my role as a victim, but I do believe that it is important that women realize that we are victims of a tremendously oppressive system, such as patriarchy, in order to advance towards changes. I think that the experiences that have marked me most have occurred in my university years, first by studying law which is a career that is still very manly, where the academy is full of men and one can rarely have women as a reference; it is very frequent that teachers consider you with less capacities. And also, the world of politics, where I have a permanent work, it is quite a macho space, it is easier that they hear you if you speak aloud and hard; they underestimate you because of your "emotionality" and thousands of other practices against which you have to fight day after day. How was the experience of having written this book? Wonderful! I have always loved writing. When I was in 10th grade, my personal project was a novel. In 12th grade I won the contest "SC in 100 words"; this filled me with proud and encouraged me. Writing about feminism was very challenging, but was never tortuous or so; the only problem was that many times I lost the objective and wrote very complicated things that people who are not related to the matter could have never understood. Writing this book meant reconnecting with the 15-year-old June who was beginning to enter into the feminist world. Do you plan to continue to devote yourself to this? Would you like to write about other topics in the future? I would like to continue to devote myself to this (being a writer seems to me much more exciting than being a lawyer) and I have many ideas in my mind about which I would like to write; life gives me lots of material. Did the fact of being a former student of Santiago College mean some advantage or benefit for you during the process of preparation of the book? Of course! My first literary jobs were prepared at school. Additionally I acquired my entire artistic experience there. Santiago College gave me not only admiration for science and history, but I also learned to value art. I have such an integral education that it has served me immensely since I graduated; from research techniques, knowing several authors, to critically reflecting about world events. What do you highlight more of SC in terms of academic and value-based education? I highlight very much that it is a secular educational establishment that does not impose beliefs, but respects all different religions. For me, the importance the school gives to art is also worth mentioning; I was in drama since 6th grade and it was something that really marked me. But above all, what is most worthy of noting about SC are its teachers, exemplary people who love their work and not only teach, but also form people. As a former student of Santiago College, which advice would you give to the generations that will graduate from school? Don't remain in your privileges. It's very easy to be in a good school, go to university, finish your career, have a very pleasant work, travel and live comfortably. The difficult part is to realize that life is not so nice for everyone and that going to build huts or donating money to some foundation may be a great contribution, but it's not enough, because what you need to do is much greater; it is a huge transformation of the system where we live. The difficult part is to know that if you simply stay put in your reality, this system full of injustice will be perpetuated, and by exiting this place, perhaps things will not change so much but at least you will be doing something real, that in some near future will contribute to the construction of a world worth for everyone.

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So Pretty and So Lonely: Written by June García, former SC student, in her fight against patriarchy

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June Garcia was famous in her class for her restless spirit, which repeatedly led her to have more than one discussion when defending her ideals; for her permanent battle against patriarchy, and for leading the feminist fight in her class.

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Jonathan Mancilla, El Mercurio

SANTIAGO.- "Como parlamentarias entendemos la violencia y desigualdad que nuestro sistema ejerce contra las mujeres, niñas y personas de la diversidad sexual".

Así comienza la proclamación que hicieron el miércoles las diputadas Camila Vallejo, Karol Cariola, Daniella Cicardini, Maya Fernández, Denise Pascal, Yenny Álvarez, Marcela Hernando, Cristina Girardi y Loreto Carvajal -y que más tarde se unió Marcela Sabat- de la nueva Bancada Feminista "Julieta Kirkwood".

Su objetivo, dice el documento, es trabajar para "impulsar iniciativas legales que apunten a terminar con la violencia y las desigualdades de género y a fiscalizar el cumplimiento de las normativas legales ya aprobadas".

"Nos comprometemos, de la misma forma, a trabajar por la fiscalización de la correcta implementación de todas aquellas leyes que digan relación con los derechos de las mujeres, niñas y adolescentes", añade.

Además, las parlamentarias anunciaron el ingreso de un proyecto de ley que crea la Comisión de Mujeres y Equidad de Género.

"Actualmente, todos los proyectos que refieren a género o hacia las mujeres y sus derechos sexuales, reproductivos, políticos, sociales y económicos se tramitan, lamentablemente, en la Comisión de Familia y Adulto Mayor. Y la verdad es que los temas de la mujer no se restringen exclusivamente a los temas de familia", explicó la diputada Vallejo.

Iniciativas dormidas

Según comentaron durante la presentación, en el Congreso aún hay varios proyectos de ley sobre esta materia que se encuentran "dormidos" porque algunos legisladores no les dan prioridad.

En total son 35 ( ver tabla) y tienen con particular énfasis en prestaciones de salud y acompañamiento de las mujeres, en la implementación de la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en tres causales; desvinculaciones a mujeres con fuero maternal; y el acceso libre, gratuito y garantizado a todos los métodos anticonceptivos.

También, algunos hacen énfasis en temas de matrimonio, violencia intrafamiliar, acoso callejero y propaganda política con contenidos sexistas.

Ley integral por el Derecho a las mujeres de una vida libre de violencia (Boletín 11077-07)

Primer trámite, Comisión Constitución, Comisión Hacienda, Familia y Adulto Mayor. Cámara de Diputados

05-01-2017
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Fuente: Cámara de Diputados / Emol

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Jonathan Mancilla, El Mercurio SANTIAGO.- "Como parlamentarias entendemos la violencia y desigualdad que nuestro sistema ejerce contra las mujeres, niñas y personas de la diversidad sexual". Así comienza la proclamación que hicieron el miércoles las diputadas Camila Vallejo, Karol Cariola, Daniella Cicardini, Maya Fernández, Denise Pascal, Yenny Álvarez, Marcela Hernando, Cristina Girardi y Loreto Carvajal -y que más tarde se unió Marcela Sabat- de la nueva Bancada Feminista "Julieta Kirkwood".

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LETTER FROM CHILE Our friends were late to meet us at an art opening on May 11th in Santiago, Chile. They had a good reason; thousands of feminist protesters had taken the streets. Even after their march had ended, everywhere you looked women were passing quickly in pairs and trios, faces painted, clutching signs. They ducked down briefly besides walls and street barriers, leaving inflammatory stencil art in their wake. That tightening you feel when mass gatherings hover on the brink of losing control was palpable and in an attempt to maintain control, officials shut down some entrances to the subway in central neighborhoods during Friday night rush hour.

Later, videos would emerge from the march that had taken place earlier in the day on La Alameda, Santiago's central avenue. One contingent was shirtless, their faces covered in maroon balaclavas. They swayed low to the ground, their fists rising in synchronicity. The United States Women's March this was not.

They chanted:

Y como y como (And how and how)

Como es la wea ? (How is this thing?)

Nos matan y nos violan (They kill us and they rape us)

Y nadie hace nada (And no one does anything)

Forty years after the United States-funded Pinochet military regime smashed the socialist idealism of the democratically-elected President Salvador Allende, the country is deeply divided. While many Chileans fight for government recognition of the regime's 1,000 detention and torture centers, dictatorship apologist Felipe Kast accrued 15.4% of the vote in last year's presidential elections despite being the grandson of an actual German Nazi. The water supply, privatized under Pinochet, is rationed at the whim of corporations. In Southern Chile, the Mapuche people were among the Americas' only tribes never to submit to colonial regime. But reminiscent of the tactics of Pinochet's repressive DINA police forces, activists protesting the region's rapacious foresting companies are disappeared. Abortion in the case of rape or probable lethality for the mother or fetus was legalized just last year. In all other cases, a person who chooses to terminate their pregnancy can be sentenced to up 10 years in jail, their doctor up to 15.

Chileans have little to fall back on besides their talent for protest, and it is far from limited to marches. The May 11 demonstrations were merely an exclamation point, a show of support for something even more radical currently sweeping the country, something that could bring long-awaited justice for Chilean women.

To date, 14 university and two high school campuses in Chile have been occupied by feminist students spurred to action by a rash of unanswered sexual assault and harassment denunciations in university communities. Prior campus occupations carried out by Chile's thriving student movement and last year's feminist takeover of Valdivia's Universidad Austral serve as precedent. This current wave of activism started on April 27th when a coalition announced to authorities that they were seizing command of the University of Chile's School of Law.

The revolution has arrived! I presented myself at the front gate credentials check at the School of Law, ground zero for the new wave of feminist radicalism. The day I arrived, the front door was staffed by a team of men. Unlike some of the separatist occupations that have launched since their initial takeover, the School of Law's moment is gender-inclusive. Men can play roles in the coalition, though they are barred from being spokespeople.

I was there to meet 21-year-old, fourth year law student Emilia Schneider, one of the occupation's spokespeople. She took a moment's break from a day of strategy meetings to speak with me about the incredible moment of defiance in which she and her peers find themselves. We found a place to talk in a corridor of quiet classrooms, where the verses of radical Chilean rapper Ana Tijoux and folk music broke the calm thanks to the students' sound system installed in the campus courtyard.

My first questions were about logistics. I wanted to know just how one shuts down a campus.

Schneider told me that her campus has been occupied by student protest every year since she matriculated. This current shutdown came about when 600 School of Law students convened for a meeting at the campus student center. "We were looking to understand the situation," said Schneider. She asserted that the meeting was not about any case specifically, but instead a general sense that things needed to change when it came to the way gender-based violence was dealt with on campus. (Since then, demands have expanded to include gender parity in curriculums. "Feminist public education is not a secondary issue, not an accessory issue, but an essential issue of how we approach radical educational transformation," said Schneider.)

On April 27th, a decision was reached that a campus takeover was necessary. As spokesperson, Schneider stayed with the meeting, chanting and leading others to grab chairs to wedge in the school's front gates as a symbol that the occupation had begun. Representatives went to the administrative offices, informing the authorities that the School of Law was now under feminist control.

Earlier this month, school administrators put out a memo calling on the students to cede their control of the campus. "The continuation of the occupation of the school properties is not an ideal way to condition the final result of the legal remedies that will be put in place," it affirmed. Days earlier, professors delivered a signed letter of support for the movement.

Their vote of confidence multiplied. First, the strikes and occupations were limited to other University of Chile campuses; the School of Government and Public Management, then Social Sciences, then Architecture and Urbanism. But soon other campuses joined in in strikes and occupations - even a school in Iquique, a town some 2,000 kilometers north of Santiago. Walking around the capital today, you are likely to see lists of demands posted to university doorways and endless feminist graffiti. (A personal favorite: "A(r)mate" written alongside the Venus symbol.)

On the School of Law campus, students staff the occupation 24 hours a day. Visitors must sign in before entering, and accused sexual predators are denied access on the basis of maintaining a safe space. Periodically, the coalition holds votes open to the student body to revalidate the occupation - they are working on technology so that people can register their vote online. Drinking is strictly prohibited. It's not all work; theater and music groups have been invited to perform for the occupation.

Schneider was careful to locate these efforts in a larger historical struggle. "The feminist movement has existed for a long time in Chile," she said, citing the work of Chilean sociologist, gender studies pioneer, and ardent socialist Juliet Kirkwood. "The problem is it goes through silences, and this silence was a prolonged one."

At the start of new action, new levels of organization are necessary. Where Schneider's contingent initially expected to negotiate their demands with School of Law officials, unexpected levels of solidarity impel them to think now on a grander scale. There are plans to unite with representatives from the other occupations and take their issues to national authorities. "We're going to sit down to dialogue with authorities of our universities departments, with the universities, with rectors, with the Minister of Education, with the Minister of Women," she told me. As a result of these strategic uncertainties, Schneider said that she expects the occupation to last for quite some time.

They have the attention of the country, and I hope the world will also be watching to see what is accomplished from these strikes, to see what women and their allies can do in the face of injustice. "It's a historic accumulation of what has happened," Schneider said. "We haven't invented anything, we are a part of history."
Muchas gracias a Chile y a Michele Threadquist por su ayuda con ese artículo.

Caitlin Donohue grew up in the Sunset and attended Jefferson Elementary School. She writes about weed, sex, perreo, and other methods of dismantling power structures. Her current center of operations is Mexico City.

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LETTER FROM CHILE Our friends were late to meet us at an art opening on May 11th in Santiago, Chile. They had a good reason; thousands of feminist protesters had taken the streets. Even after their march had ended, everywhere you looked women were passing quickly in pairs and trios, faces painted, clutching signs.

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"Feminism" is a word that gets thrown around a lot in today's media. But do you really know what that word means?

If you're a little fuzzy on the definition you are not alone. I ran a Google Trends analysis for "what is feminism," and as you can see the search has been rising for the past 10 years

The history of the word

So let's start with the building blocks. "Femin-" comes from the latin root word "femina," meaning woman. "-ism" is a suffix derived from the greek "ισμός" or "ismós" that turns the preceding noun into a verb, implying a belief, practice, or worldview.

The first recorded use of the word in English was 1851, but at that time it just meant "the state of being feminine." Then, in 1837, French philosopher and utopian socialist Charles Fourier coined the word word "féminisme" to mean advocacy of women's rights.

But what does it mean in 2017?

Do yourself a favor and do not bother with definitions on Urban Dictionary as they are mostly inaccurate. If you do take a look you'll see that there are some very common misconceptions regarding the term. My favorite definition comes from Dr. Susan Currie Sivek
"Feminism is a movement that seeks equality for people of any gender. It is founded on the belief that people should be able to pursue any opportunity and demonstrate atny characteristic regardless of gender."
Important things to note about feminism today: Both men and women can be feminists. Feminism is in favor of equality between genders, not dominance of women over men. Feminism is inclusive of people who are trans and who are non-binary.

If it's pro-equality, why is it "feminism" and not "equalism" or "humanism" ?

Because historically, "feminism" the idea and "feminism" the word rose in popularity together during the U.S. women's suffrage movement of the late 1800's andearly 1900's, which was focused on getting women the right to vote. Since this was a problem only hurting women, the name made sense. As time has gone on, the goals have evolved but the name has stuck.

Some people who believe in feminist ideology aren't comfortable with the label because they believe it has negative connotations. I think that the people who argue in favor of changing "feminism" to "equalism" or "humanism" are overconcerned with semantics. If you want to change the word I urge you to sit really think about why. Why does the word bother you so much? Are you maybe so socially indoctrinated in patriarchy that your gut reaction is that anything relating to women is inherently worse/undesirable compared to things that are neutral or relating to men?

Empowerment v.s. feminism

Have you ever seen an ad targeted toward men use the word "empowering?" I certainly haven't. But open any women's magazine and you'll see articles piled upon advertisements talking about "empowerment" and reviews of piece talking about how empowering they are.

Empowerment (and its various conjugations and forms) seems to be the popular media's way of co-opting the popularity of feminism in today's culture to sell things. This is "Empowertising," a term coined by Andi Zeisler, c0founder of Bitch Media. She expands in her book "We Were Feminist Once"

"(Empowering) is both gender essentialist and commercially motivated. Over the past two decades a partial list of everything that has been deemed "empowering" by advertising campaigns, pop culture products, and feminist rhetoric include the following: high heels, flats, plastic surgery, embracing your wrinkles, having children, not having children, natural childbirth, having an epidural,learning self defense, buying a gun... being butch, being femme, driving a truck, riding a motorcyle, riding a bike, walking... being a good friend, being an asshole."

Empowerment is a facet of "choice feminism." "Choice feminism" is a type of new wave feminism where anything is a feminist choice if a feminist makes that choice. It focuses on individual achievement instead of systematic change. If you're curious to hear Zeisler expand on this I highly recommend this interview: SMNTY @ Ladyfest podcast

So there are types of feminism?

There's choice feminism, marketplace feminism, commodity feminism, capitalist feminism, first wave feminism, second wave feminism... The strains and definitions are evolving. Feminism belongs to the people who are feminists.

Please remember:
"Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women."
- Emma Watson ( source)

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"Feminism" is a word that gets thrown around a lot in today's media. But do you really know what that word means? If you're a little fuzzy on the definition you are not alone. I ran a Google Trends analysis for "what is feminism," and as you can see the search has been rising for the past 10 years So let's start with the building blocks.

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The Women's March on Washington this weekend, which drew an estimated crowd of 470,000, was mirrored across the country and around the world by 673 sister marches - about 3.3 million bodies in the US and hundreds of thousands more abroad.

Women, men, and children moved mostly together through the streets of their respective cities, even in DC where the crowd was so large it took up the entire permitted marching route before it took a step. The people there improvised somehow on the spot, with severely limited cell service and no clear directives from the sound system set up on the National Mall. They spontaneously splintered into groups that took over Pennsylvania Avenue, Constitution Avenue, and Independence Avenue, as well as cross streets, bottlenecking but eventually reforming into a second massive rally in front of the White House. At times it felt like moving toward any pocket of air - less a march and more a dispersal to cover ground and get some elbow room.

Headed to DC on Friday, I was asked by my editor to pay attention to the ways that people were communicating and dealing with logistical issues on the spot. Would the Women's March app be used to ping people with changes in plan, or would the massive crowds inspire an official recommendation of using peer-to-peer communications like FireChat? Would organizers encourage participants to use encrypted messaging services to protect themselves? Would there be clashes with police or anti-protest groups that warranted live video streams? In reality the only mass communication I witnessed was organizers asking participants to text a no-reply number to obtain an official tally for the march - seemingly unaware that 500,000 people sending a text in synchronization in a small space is probably impossible, and that many people had been warned not to help create records of their location and ID on protest day. For all the reasoned and confident organization the Women's March team did before the event, they were unprepared to direct the crowd that eventually materialized before them on Saturday morning, and they didn't use any of the tools we imagined.

the women's march didn't use any of the tools we imagined

That's not a knock on the organizers or a denial of the broader role of social media. Inspired by the organization tactics popularized by the Black Lives Matter movement and echoed by the recently and briefly potent Pantsuit Nation group, the Women's March organizers did their initial rallying mostly on Facebook. The first suggestion of the march was made the day after the election by Teresa Shook, a retired grandmother in Hawaii, in a post in Pantsuit Nation. By November 11th, her suggestion had been taken up by 10,000 women, then championed by activist Bob Bland and the organizers of the annual Women in the World summit. The massive response on Facebook attracted the attention of tested activist organizers who were able to craft the march's mission statement to be inclusive and incisive. There were momentary controversies over the march's chosen name and whether or not it would be a truly intersectional expression of modern feminism, and as Jia Tolentino pointed out in The New Yorker, "It is unfortunate that Facebook is both the best place to reach people and the worst place to conduct political discussion. Imagine any major protest in the twentieth century promoted via Facebook; there would have been no shortage of 'infighting' enshrined on social media for everyone to see." This in-fighting may someday prove to be a valuable historical text, and in spite of it, or maybe because of it, millions of people showed up to march. Once they did so, the tools that brought them together ceased to be useful.

The official app for the Women's March, which hosted an Instagram-inspired feed of photos and plenty of pre-march information, served basically no function from an organizing perspective in real time because it required cell service or Wi-Fi to load updates. At one point, a rally speaker acknowledged that the crowd "may have seen" a news article saying the march was no longer happening because there were too many people. But there was no way to get Twitter to load in the thick of things, so most of us had not. Apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram were useful only on the outskirts of the protest and afterwards, to digest dispatches that had been sent whenever a signal could be ferreted out. These tools were powerful only in the moments after, as a way to make the protest last into the first eerily quiet Sunday of the Trump administration and into the weeks and months that will follow - when these images will be so important to return to.

President Trump, you made a big mistake. By trying to divide us up by race, religion, gender and nationality you actually brought us closer. pic.twitter.com/U7deCCTFx9
- Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 21, 2017

The 21st century may have a new kind of protest outfitted with new tools for planning and documentation, but on the ground, protest looks just like it did when it took place in front of the Lincoln Memorial 50 years ago and passed the Civil Rights Act. The revolution does not need an app; it needs human beings whose presence cannot be denied or danced around. The crowds in cities like DC, New York, San Francisco, and Chicago, were intimidating in their size but not surprising in their existence. The bigger story is the fact that marches occurred in all 50 states - red states and red cities, red towns and red college campuses. My sister marched in North Carolina, two days after calling me in a fury because her psychology professor derided Planned Parenthood to a class full of young people who were ostensibly eager to hear it. These are places with representatives who would have you believe that their constituencies have nothing in common with the nation's liberal cities or centrist states. The people who marched there are people you may never have heard from until now. And while viral tweets of protest or arguments encountered only on Facebook can be written off as the pastime of a self-indulgent generation of "coastal liberal elites," there is no gymnastics of the mind that can make the argument that these marchers were a "coastal," or "elitist," or even just a Democratic response to the inauguration of Donald Trump. There is, the bodies in these photos argue, no bubble. In his tweeted prediction that Americans would "come together as never before" during his administration, Trump may actually have spoken a profound and surprising truth, albeit not the one that he intended.

In an interview on Fox Business on Saturday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz suggested that Democratic donor George Soros may have paid protesters to come out on Inauguration Day. While that comment can rankle you, imagining how someone so dumb became an elected official in your democracy, it can't sway anyone with eyes. Physical bodies in space cannot be denied the way online phenomena still can, and the intent of a person with a sign that says "I am afraid for my family" cannot be obfuscated by spin. Decent people, or even just cautiously rational people, were everywhere. That fact has been recorded incontrovertibly by the photographs that will one day be printed in our history textbooks. Donald Trump's tweets may be there beside them, but they won't look anywhere near so impressive. Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook may get a mention, but we, the people, will be the most powerful image.

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The Women's March proves that 21st century protest is still about bodies, not tweets

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UAE gender equality awards are won entirely by MEN

UAE government held their annual Gender Balance Index awards in Dubai

Awards in all categories were handed to men by Vice President of UAE

Many social media users ridiculed the complete lack of female winners

Vice President's daughter 'recognised' for her work but she was not present

The United Arab Emirates is being ridiculed online after holding their annual 'gender equality' awards - and all the winners were revealed to be men.

Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Vice President of the UAE and the ruler of Dubai, handed out prizes at the Gender Balance Index 2018 ceremony in Dubai on Sunday.

When the Dubai government posted photographs of the winners being handed their prizes on its official Twitter, they were met by mockery, with some even asking if the account had been hacked.

'Wow really nailed the diversity there. One of those dudes was wearing gray,' one person tweeted in response.

One person added: 'And they say that satire is dead,' while another tweeted that Dubai had made themselves 'a laughing stock in the eyes of the world'.

The UAE's Gender Balance Index awards 'initiatives and programmes undertaken by various government entities to promote equal opportunities for both men and women', according to the Dubai government.

There are four categories: Best Personality Supporting Gender Balance, Best Federal Authority Supporting Gender Balance, Best Government Entity Supporting Gender Balance and the Best Gender Balance Initiative.

While all four awards were accepted by men, Sheik Mohammed acknowledged the work of one woman: his own daughter Sheika Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoumm whose husband is the Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE..

His Highness 'recognised the efforts of the Gender Balance Council, headed by Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs,' a statement published by the Dubai government said.

'We are proud of the success of Emirati women and their role is central to shaping the future of the country,' Sheik Mohammed was quoted as saying by the Dubai Media Office as he handed over the awards.

'Gender balance has become a pillar in our governmental institutions,' he added.

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UAE government held their annual Gender Balance Index awards in Dubai Awards in all categories were handed to men by Vice President of UAE Many social media users ridiculed the complete lack of female winners Vice President's daughter 'recognised' for her work but she was not present The United Arab Emirates is being ridiculed online after holding their annual 'gender equality' awards - and all the winners were revealed to be men.

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One year ago protestors took to the streets of Spain on March 8, International Women's Day, to demonstrate against the slow pace of change toward equality. This year, not only was the scene repeated across the country, but the achievement was actually greater. From Cádiz, Bilbao and Palma de Mallorca, to Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Vigo, there was a huge turnout at the planned marches on Friday evening. According to various government delegations, there were between 350,000 and 375,000 people present in Madrid (last year the estimate was 170,000), and 220,000 in Valencia. In Barcelona, the local police estimated a total of 200,000 participants.

For the second year running, the day included a full strike aimed at female workers as well as students, or two-hour stoppages. Despite the difficulty in measuring the observance of such action, the strength of the mobilization in Spain would appear to be unique the world over, turning the country into a leader when it comes to drawing attention to the feminist struggle.

In the last 12 months in Spain, and despite the arrival of a Socialist Party (PSOE) government that brought with it 11 female Cabinet ministers out of a total of 17, there have been no real advances in fundamental issues such as gender violence, the pay gap and access to positions of responsibility - the clear causes of the mobilizations last March and upon which there has been much debate in reecent months. But since the rise in support for far-right party Vox, and the subsequent shift toward the right of the conservative Popular Party (PP), debates that appeared to have been laid to rest - such as Spain's abortion law - have once again reopened. This political climate contributed to the mass support that the marches and strike action called for Friday received, with the demonstrations taking place under the slogan "We have 1,000 reasons."

A march in Seville on International Women's Day. Europa Press

Protest against the PP

Earlier in the day, in Castellón (Valencia), a group of protestors prevented the president of the Popular Party (PP), Pablo Casado, from delivering a speech ahead of the campaign for local and regional elections. A group made up mostly of women banged pots, blew on whistles and shouted out messages such as: "You are the patriarchy!" and "Casado, you machista, you're on our list!" The PP leader has openly criticized "leftist feminism" and said he would not attend today's march in Madrid because he claims it has been co-opted by the political left.

Street demonstrations got underway earlier on Friday in many other parts of Spain. "We want your respect, we don't want your compliments," chanted protestors in Madrid's central Puerta del Sol square.

Firefighters observing the scene at a demonstration in Vitoria. LUIS TEJIDO EFE

"The problem is that women are expected to work as though they didn't have children, and to raise children as though they didn't have to work," said Claudia González, a worker from Seville who marched on Friday.

In the Basque Country, tens of thousands of women, many of them students, filled the streets of Bilbao, the region's biggest metropolis. There was also a large turnout in Vitoria.

There were additional demonstrations in Pamplona, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. In the southern region of Andalusia alone, a total of 139 protests had been authorized.

The teaching sector was particularly involved in Friday's events. After collating data from a number of Spain's regions, the state teaching federation from the CC OO union put the observance of the strike at more than 80% at universities. "In secondary schools the figure is 61% and in primary schools 42%," the union added.

With reporting from Juan A. Aunión (Madrid), Javier Martín-Arroyo (Seville), Manuel Planelles (Madrid), Pedro Gorospe (Bilbao), Alejandro Fernández (Madrid), Manuel V. Gómez (Madrid), Alfonso L. Congostrina (Barcelona), Grego Casanova (Barcelona), Nicolás Pan-Montojo (Madrid), Oriol Güell (Barcelona), Javier Arroyo (Granada), Nacho Sánchez (Málaga) and Jesús A. Cañas (Cádiz).

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NEW report on the state of women's rights in Central Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Baltic States

Posted on 1 January 2019 |

[Brussels, 16 December 2018] Writer and women's rights activist, Elif Shafak: 'It's a crucial moment for global feminism. (...) We women sometimes play a role in the continuity of patriarchy, because patriarchy is not a black and white system in which men oppress women. It's much more complicated. I think we need to go back to the basics. Remember the solidarity. The sisterhood. And expand it."

The women of Central and Eastern Europe are telling their story. The story they tell is one of the women of their region yesterday, today and tomorrow. Over time, they have been given false podiums, false hope, they have been wrestled with, told to go to work, told to stay home from work, disappeared, written out of history. But now they are telling this story with a view to rewriting it, and it has just been published in our new report!

Solidarity protest against the abortion ban in Poland in Prague

This EWL report tells of the failures of the past in the region - from the state of women's emancipation upheld by socialist authoritarian states to the transition time backlash against all things feminist in the 90s, which called for a restoration of "proper, traditional gender relations". From the market liberalisation fever that slashed women's jobs and services to EU accession and EU funding that remained a dream for most of the smaller women's rights organisations. And to conservative populist politics in many countries, introducing laws bringing restrictions on abortion and contraception. As Taskforce member Borbála Juhász points out: "If family policy is pitted against women's rights, we will lose both". Women's rights and gender equality have been reduced to footnote status on the list of EU priorities.

If there is one red thread throughout the modern history of the region, it is that neither the gender equality and women's rights agenda nor the movement behind it ever had any genuine support or space to transform themselves and to transform society. And yet it's not all dark. The solutions are there and they are being proposed by women who have decades of experience of transformative thinking at the grassroots of societies from Serbia to Hungary, Poland and Estonia.

Members of the EWL CEEBBS Taskforce in Brussels in June 2017

They have a vision which is context specific, but in fact largely relevant for the whole EU. What if decision makers - local to national to EU level - understood that feminism means well-being, sustainability, inclusion and justice for all? What if they started to really give space and support to women's rights organisations? What if there was no parliament and no government with less than 50% women? Task Force member Kateřina Hodická from the Czech Republic added: "Though women gained the right to vote in Czechoslovakia already in 1919, still 100 years later Czech women do not cherish equality de facto with Czech men. E.g. gender pay gap reaches 22 %." What if the 'gender pay gap' was a thing of the past? What if the home was no longer the most dangerous place for a woman to be? What if domestic violence was universally considered as a crime? What if migrant and minority women were valued as women with full rights as well as a wealth of knowledge, expertise and experience that they are willing to share with Europe?

All of these solutions are within reach. What if ...we made them a reality? The time is now for a feminist Europe.

Find the report by EWL's Central, Eastern Europe, the Balkan and the Baltic States (CEEBBS) Taskforce report here and the Executive Summary here.

Full report

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A group of four men allegedly ‌‌as‌saul‌t‌e‌d two women in South Korea for having a short haircut and wearing no makeup, calling them "feminists."
The inci‌de‌nt occurred around 4 a.m. at a pub near Isu Station in Seoul on Nov. 13, the Kyunghyang Shinmun reported.

According to one of the victims, it all started when she and her companion noticed a couple staring suspiciously at them from the next table.

When asked why they were staring, the couple only laughed and whispered more to each other.

The situation developed into a b‌ra‌w‌l that turned worse when, out of the blue, five men interfered in support of the couple.

"I've now seen the famous Megal-nyun," said one of the men, combining the words Megalia, a Korean feminist community, and -nyun, roughly translating to "b**ch."

The quarrel continued as the woman from the couple went outside to call the p‌oli‌c‌e.

The couple eventually left - along with one of the five men - but the rest went on to harass the women with insults.

They allegedly made sarcastic comments such as "Aren't you too old for this?" and "Do you have nothing to do?"

Things escalated when the women noticed that the men had been secretly filming them.

"Since it turned into a very dangerous situation, I decided to film, but one of the men took my phone," one of the victims said. "I tried to get it back but that man smacked and choked my neck, saying 'Don't mess the f**k around. Born with a p***y and can't even do this?'"

Victim "A," who was then shoved to a wall, lost her balance and fell to the ground on her back.
"I lied on the ground because the back of my head was hurt. The group of men left the pub, running over my body, mocking me, stepping on my bag and cussing at me to move."
However, things turned bloody when Victim "B" attempted to call the p‌o‌lic‌e. She allegedly tried to catch one of the men but he violently shook her off.

"He violently pushed her between the entrance and the stairway. I repeatedly asked them to stop pushing her but they didn't stop. One of them then kicked her, and she was thrown to the air with the back of her head hitting the edge of the stairs," "A" recalled.
"I was so shocked and immediately raised her up but there was so much blood coming out from her head. The men ran off as soon as they saw it. I tried to wipe off the blood but my hands were shaking."
Po‌li‌c‌e arrived at the scene 30 minutes later. Surprisingly, all four men returned just as "A" was being questioned.

They claimed that "B" had fallen down and hit her head by herself.

The incident has gone viral on South Korean social media through the hashtag #이수역_폭행남 (#IsuStation_MaleAssault).

A tipster told NextShark that Koreans have been pleading to get the word out on international news as mainstream Korean media are "trying to cover this up."

Women been beaten by five men because they have short haircut looking like feminists. #이수역_폭행사건 #이수역_폭행남 pic.twitter.com/nPvlbBAFWZ

- JENN✨ (@JENN__GRACE) November 14, 2018

Another version of the story claimed that the two women had provoked the men first, "making fun of their 'Korean man' dick and daring to hit them first."

A video showing the women "egging" the men before the situation turned physical has gone viral on Korean social media.

"B" is currently recovering from her head wound, which turned out to be so deep that her skull was already visible. She has since been suffering from headaches, dizziness, loss of appetite and stomach aches.

Meanwhile, "A" has been calling for help so that other women would not have to suffer a similar experience. A petition urging the South Korean government to take action was launched and has garnered at least 337,000 signatures to date.

"I was as‌sa‌ult‌e‌d only because I was not wearing makeup and my haircut was short," said "A."

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Women in South Korea are fighting back against unfair beauty standards, and getting rid of the things that constrain them.

Beauty in South Korea does not come in all shapes and sizes. It comes with a V-shaped face, a slender body, double eyelids, and pale porcelain skin.

Cis Korean women are expected to go to any length to achieve this perfect look-and they certainly do. South Korea has the highest per capita plastic surgery procedures in the world, and its beauty is globally ranked as one of the largest. Every major street and subway station is littered with stores selling sheet masks, Jeju volcanic creams, and the promise of perfection.

But some South Korean women, mostly those in their late teens and twenties, are declaring it's time to "take off their corsets." These women do not literally wear corsets; the movement references the restrictive, harmful, and gender-essentialist nature of corsets. , or Tal Corset (tal meaning to take off), inspires women to cut their hair drastically short, destroy their makeup, and get rid of uncomfortable clothes. Anything that restricts how women express themselves, or asks women to conform to certain beauty standards at the expense of their own desires, is a "corset." And these women are claiming that it's time to throw them out.

Anything that restricts how women express themselves, or asks women to conform to certain beauty standards at the expense of their own desires, is a 'corset.' Click To Tweet

Getting a short haircut and forsaking makeup and bras is radical in a nation like South Korea. Like other East Asian countries, South Korea is still heavily influenced by Confucian ideals, which explicitly qualify men as superior, and command women to be obedient to their fathers and brothers when young, then to their husbands, and later to their male children. Though women no longer exist for the sole purpose of bearing a male heir, they are still expected to be passive, soft-spoken, and utterly feminine.

As a result, women's behavior and appearance is fastidiously scrutinized. In fact, it is often considered rude for Korean women to show their " " face in public. South Korea also has the lowest score of any OECD country in terms of the gender pay gap. According to the 2017 OECD report , "women hold only 17% of seats in the National Assembly [...] and only 10.5% of management positions [in the private sector]." The patriarchal Hoju System , which by law placed men as the head of households, was not abolished until 2008.

To make matters worse, feminism is still very taboo in South Korea. Anything even slightly related to women's empowerment is often met with extreme, and sometimes violent, backlash. Female K-Pop idols have faced public uproar and boycotts from male fans for shockingly radical actions like reading a feminist book or having a "girls can do anything" . Female game developers claim male players their accounts for any feminist activity. If any semblance of feminism is found, they often complain and protest until the developers formally apologize or leave the company.

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Steady changes towards women's rights have been happening for decades, but the efforts somewhat lacked movement. Then, in 2016, the horrifying Gangnam Murder shook the nation and awoke a upheaval. On May 17, a man murdered a random woman in a public bathroom close to Gangnam Station. He reportedly did it because he had been scorned by women too many times. Enraged, thousands of women took to the , fed up with the violence of misogyny.

Feminism experienced another resurgence with the explosion of , which has toppled down high-profile assaulters, including the (paywall) presidential candidate Ahn Hee Jung. There have also been widespread against spycam pornography, an issue South Korea has struggled with for years.

In the midst of all this, it is only natural for women to start pushing against other forms of oppression-namely, society's patriarchal obsession with controlling how they act and look.

탈코르셋 캘리그라피 영상입니다!👏👏 pic.twitter.com/0taZxpA24z

- 김명지✏ (@kim_noonsong) June 9, 2018

"I didn't really get the whole concept of Tal Corset at first because I thought 'corsets' like makeup, long hair, and high heels were things you do for yourself [...] but I got to understand the concept when I saw it as a society, not just from my point of view," says Myungji Kim, a college student who writes feminist calligraphy.

Her sentiments are shared by Fennie J*, a high school student. "When I first got to know about Tal Corset, there were so many things that I started to evaluate," she says. "I wondered 'is that also a corset?' [...] I finally realized that I had been pushing myself too much to meet female social standards by calling it 'self-satisfaction.'"

According to these women, joining the movement has changed their lives for the better.

"I tried to lose weight until I almost fainted crossing the street [...] as a result of an extreme diet I was on," says 18-year old Sion Ji. "I have put myself into the tightest corset to meet society's standards. I don't do that anymore."

Besides a healthier and more positive relationship with their bodies, women are also gaining a valuable resource: time.

Myungji Kim boasts that she went from spending an hour getting ready every day to just 15 minutes. And Sion Ji says, "I can now get enough sleep since I don't need to wake up early to [get ready]. I can instead use that time to study more."

Besides a healthier and more positive relationship with their bodies, women are also gaining a valuable resource: time. Click To Tweet

Despite the positive changes advocates of the movement exalt, not everyone agrees with its ideology. Most of the criticism comes from people claiming that telling women to not wear makeup or skirts is just trading one set of beauty standards for another. " [...]Are we taking off the corset or putting on another one? Calling yourself a radical feminist doesn't justify criticizing people with a different opinion." says on Twitter.

Yet others say that the movement is more about options. "By breaking off the concept of 'feminine' and wearing a [different] look [...], I wanted to show [that] there are clearly more options for women," says Myungji Kim.

Most of the women I spoke to said they felt supported by their family and friends. The public sphere, however, is a whole different beast.

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"I realized that male workers in the service industry treat me differently," says Sion Ji. "Before, when talking to male workers as a customer, they used to talk to me with a smile on their face, but since I got my hair cut short, they are not like that anymore." Others said they had had instances of people on the metro commenting loudly and disapprovingly on their masculine look.

For Myungji Kim, things have been more extreme. "I openly engage in feminist activities with my face and name out there. Sometimes my pictures end up on random websites and I get sexually harassed and cyberbullied," she says. "Some people have left me. Living as a feminist in Korea is really not easy, [it] means you can get fired, your personal information might be posted up on the internet without your consent, and it's likely to affect your chances of being hired."

This is one of the reasons many of the women posting about the movement hide their faces online behind carefully chosen angles or cute stickers. Interestingly enough, this pattern seems mostly prevalent on Twitter rather than Instagram.

#탈코르셋_인증#탈코르셋_후기
사실 머리자르고 조금 후회했다
더 일찍 자를걸 더 짧게 자를걸
예전에 어떻게 저리 업업하고 다녔는지 상상도 안됨
머리 감고 말리기까지 3분컷이다 pic.twitter.com/4ZfM13Hgto

- 🍤⭐️재기민기밐기🍣😼 (@formygr8life) May 13, 2018

Sion Ji affirms that she hid her face because of fear. She cites an incident in which a female YouTuber received threats for mirroring, or copying the language men use to attack women to in turn attack men. One of the people who threatened to kill her did so as he filmed himself going to what he thought was her house (from an address provided by netizens).

Fennie J has different reasons for concealing her identity. "If I didn't cover my face, people would try to find out 'who from where' instead of [listening] to the message I want to send," she said. "People would score my look and see [me] as an object, not a subject."

The haters may be hating, but it seems like feminism, and Tal Corset, are here to stay. The word is spreading, the world is watching, and women's lives are changing. As Fennie J puts it, "This movement is a chance for all women, including me, to have more dignity."
*Name has been changed as per the source's request. **Interviews and texts were translated by Jung In Lee. Interviews have been edited for clarity.

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Women's March 2.0: Scenes of a Protest

A year after millions of women protested President Trump, marchers gathered across the country and the world.

"It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains." "Trump can't read. Trump can't read. All he does is watch TV." "Tell me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like." "Show me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like." "And together let's make sure all young girls everywhere know that they have a voice. They can use it. One woman's voice is powerful. But all of our voices are completely unstoppable." "Well I went down to the White House and I took back what he stole from me." "Women's rights are human rights!"

A year after millions of women protested President Trump, marchers gathered across the country and the world. Credit Credit... Andrea Bruce for The New York Times

A year after millions of people turned out for the Women's March and took to the streets en masse to protest President Trump's inauguration, demonstrators gathered on Saturday in cities across the United States, galvanized by their disdain for Mr. Trump and his administration's policies.

A deluge of revelations about powerful men abusing women, leading to the #MeToo moment, has pushed activists to demand deeper social and political change. Progressive women are eager to build on the movement and translate their enthusiasm into electoral victories in this year's midterm elections.
Here are some highlights:
* More than 200,000 protesters attended the march in New York on Saturday, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles said 600,000 attended the march there, while organizers of the Chicago march said 300,000 attended that event. Thousands also turned out in Washington, Philadelphia, Austin and hundreds of other cities and towns around the country and world.

* Several speakers urged women to channel their energy into helping Democrats win races in the upcoming midterm elections. A rally called "Power to the Polls," organized by the leaders of last year's Women's March in Washington, will be held on Sunday in Las Vegas.

* President Trump said in a tweet that it was a "perfect day for all Women to March," while touting "unprecedented economic success and wealth creation" under his watch.

* Read our analysis of how activists have tried to sustain the energy from last year's marches - and the challenges they face next.

That's what Vanessa Medina, a 32-year-old nurse, said prompted her to participate this year, even though she didn't march last January. Ms. Medina, of Clifton, N.J., cited the Time's Up campaign against sexual harassment and Republicans' attempts to defund Planned Parenthood as her reasons for protesting.

"I want equal pay," her 11-year-old daughter, Xenaya, chimed in. "And equal rights."

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Ann Dee Allen of Wauwatosa, Wis., stood by a vendor table on 60th Street and Broadway, holding a T-shirt and a handful of buttons she had just bought for the demonstration.

"I feel differently about it this year," said Ms. Allen, 61, who works in communications for a health care organization. "Last year, I just felt kind of angry and impassioned. This year, I feel like I'm in it for the long haul."

Women filled Central Park West from 61st Street north as far as the eye could see. A D.J. spun songs. The wind kicked up.

Desiree Joy Frias, 24, of the Bronx, and her grandmother, Daisy Vanderhorst, wore red capes and curved white hoods - the telltale outfits of the enslaved child-bearers of "The Handmaid's Tale," which was recently adapted for television from Margaret Atwood's dystopian science fiction novel.

"We both watch the show," said Ms. Frias, a law school graduate who said she belongs to an activist group called the "Handmaid Coalition." "We're a group of men and women that believe fiction should not become reality."

In the middle of a park surrounded by gleaming downtown skyscrapers, hundreds of thousands of people assembled. Some hugged strangers. Others were still coloring in their signs.

"I'm done with men feeling like they have some sort of power over women, and I'm definitely done with having a president who believes that he has the power to take things from them, to take things that are provided - like Planned Parenthood - from women, when they deserve the same sort of health care as anybody else," said Amanda Kowalski, 28, who works in financial services.

Claudia Grubbs, a 42-year-old high school teacher, returned after marching last year, which she said spurred her into donating to organizations that support women in politics.

"Over the last year, every day when I read the news or watch the news, I'm horrified at the things that Trump and his administration are doing, and I feel like going to the march will help re-center me, refocus me and not make me feel like I don't know what is happening to our country," she said. "I feel like it'll help me gain a sense of balance and a sense of purpose, and help me pursue things that I want to pursue."

Ashley Bennett, a Democrat from Egg Harbor Township, N.J., unseated a longtime local Republican politician in her first campaign for office last November. She ran for Atlantic County freeholder against John L. Carman after he posted a meme on Facebook during last year's march asking, "Will the women's protest be over in time for them to cook dinner?"

Ms. Bennett told the crowd at Saturday's march in New York that she was scared to run at first, and that she asked herself, "Am I the right person? Can I really do this? But then I realized that if you wait until you feel ready, you may never take action."

In Washington, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, took the stage with other legislators who arrived from the Capitol. She praised the women who have already launched campaigns, many for the first time.

"They marched, and now they have run for office, and some of them have already won their office," she said. "We want women to know their power in so many respects - by showing up not only on the day of the march, but in airports, in town halls."

"It's women who are holding our democracy together in these dangerous times," added Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York. "To change the system, we need to change the players and have women at the table."

On Twitter Saturday afternoon, the president seemed to celebrate the women's demonstrations, even though the protests across the country had a distinct anti-Trump message.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the unemployment rate for women aged 20 and older has been falling steadily since 2012, years before Mr. Trump took office.

On Friday, Mr. Trump addressed the thousands of anti-abortion protesters gathered in Washington for the March for Life.

"We are with you all the way," he said in remarks broadcast to the National Mall. The president, who once described himself as "very pro-choice," has used his executive powers to curtail abortion rights.

The federal government shutdown that took effect early Saturday did not dissuade marchers from taking to the streets.

One of the sticking points that led to the shutdown - disagreement over extending legal status to immigrants brought into the country illegally as children - has become a rallying cry for organizers.

On the Metro headed to the Smithsonian, participants on their way to the Lincoln Memorial wore the symbolic pink hats that became popular during last year's march.

Michelle Bloom, 52, a Washington teacher, held a sign as her daughter, Jenna, 14, repaired hers with duct tape. She had made it in her mother's classroom Friday, tracing the handprints of her classmates who couldn't make it to the march.

"It's inspiring to see young and old coming together like this," Michelle Bloom said. But, she added, "I thought there would be more."

Women lined the frozen reflecting pool and slowly filled the grassy areas, but there was still space for kickball games around the Washington Monument. And people jogged and biked around the Mall, which would have been impossible a year ago, when the crowd of marchers was bigger.

The organizers of last year's march in Washington focused their energy this year on putting together an event Sunday in Las Vegas. The event, Power to the Polls, will serve as an opening rally for a national voter registration campaign.

While the crowds in Washington were not quite as large as they were in 2017, the Mall was still teeming with people.

Garrett Regunberg, 32, pointed to the rallies against President Trump's travel ban as an example of ongoing activism that has made a difference.

"There was a lot done in the first year to limit the damage that could have been done," he said. "The resistance is alive."

Marchers packed into downtown Chicago to listen to speakers like billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer, who has urged Democrats to make the ouster of Mr. Trump a central campaign issue this year.

With midterm elections approaching, Mr. Steyer said, "We are going to have to be organized, we are going to have to be engaged and we are going to have to go to the polls and flip those seats."

Marchers shouted anti-Trump chants and carried signs saying, "Vote" and "Immigrants Make America Great."

"I'm an activist and an artist and I'm here to fight for women's equality and equality for all minorities," said Michelle Hartney, 39, of Chicago, who said she attended the Women's March in Washington last year.

Some women avoided the marches on Saturday because they felt they were too focused on electing Democrats, at the expense of other issues. They wanted the movement to be more inclusive of people of color and other marginalized groups.

Nadya Agrawal, 26, joined the big rally in Washington last year. "But it just wasn't what I thought it would be," she said. "It felt more like a commiseration rather than the start of a lot of work."

Gatherings like these, she added, were no substitute for more focused activism. "I hope that the women who are at this rally are also going to the next Black Lives Matter protest, or marching on behalf of DACA," she said.

Other gatherings across the country faced similar criticism on social media and in public statements. In Cincinnati, Black Lives Matter activists said on their website, the march was not welcoming to minorities and was "a poorly veiled campaign to elect more Democrats to 'resist Trump.'" In Philadelphia, activists criticized the rally in an open letter after they learned that the police would be on patrol. (Organizers said the security was normal for a large event and marginalized groups were well represented.)

Deandra Jefferson, 24, who helped write the letter, said in a phone interview on Saturday that the march "caters mostly toward middle class, straight white women," and was not an effective way to dismantle oppression.

"They should stop organizing these marches until they decide what they're going to do the other 364 days of the year," she added.

The shutdown kept the president from traveling as planned to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida this weekend.

Despite his absence, several hundred protesters gathered north of the mansion, on the beach in front of Worth Avenue. Many people waved "Impeach Trump" signs.

Organizers of the second Women's March in Ottawa shifted the focus to issues directly affecting Canadian women. Many marchers wore red scarves as a gesture of support for the large number of indigenous women whose murders or disappearances have received relatively little attention from the police.

The march, which began at the Parliament buildings, was one of about three dozen across Canada.

Among those who addressed the crowd in Ottawa was Catherine McKenna, the environment minister, who has been one of the leading international voices against President Trump's climate policies.

Late last year, Ms. McKenna confronted a reporter from a right-wing Canadian news outlet, Rebel Media, over its repeated references to her as Climate Barbie. Earlier, a Conservative member of Parliament apologized for describing her that way on Twitter.

"I realized that when I spoke out in my small case of being called Climate Barbie - when I did it I felt better, but I also saw that so many other people stood up for me and they also felt empowered," Ms. McKenna said in an interview outside of a concert venue at the end of the march.

Although Ms. McKenna credited Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who regularly describes himself as a feminist, for encouraging women to enter politics, she said their numbers still must increase, and not just in Canada.

"I really believe that we wouldn't have had an ambitious Paris climate agreement if we didn't have strong women negotiators," she said. "That's one of the untold stories."

The actress and director Asia Argento, one of the first women to publicly accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, has been mostly vilified by Italian commentators. But the several hundred women who congregated in a downtown Rome piazza on Saturday morning gave her a rousing welcome.

"I'd like to see how many of you today acknowledge that you have put up with abuse, by raising your hands. And not just sexual. Abuse of power. Because we are women, because we don't have power," said Ms. Argento, as numerous hands timidly rose from the crowd.

The women chanted slogans in Italian and English in solidarity with a global sisterhood whose vision "is in sharp contrast with the Donalds of the world and other self-proclaimed geniuses," said one of the keynote speakers, Loretta Bondi, of Rome's Casa Internazionale delle Donne, or International Women's Center.

Women also gathered in other corners of the world, including Frankfurt, Germany; Kampala, Uganda; and Osaka, Japan, where a small group chanted "Time's up!" in English and Japanese.

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The goal for this campaign is to inform an audience about feminism and why it has become more relevant, especially in the 21st century. My audience ranges from teenagers (14-18 years old) to young adults (19-25 years old) who speak and can read in english.

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1. National: I can do an interview with feminist people and record the questions and answers in a document.
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Global: Feminism has been growing globally. Women are slowly getting the same opportunities than men. This is shown in the growth of women working in the government throughout the years.

National: Feminism has been growing really prominently throughout the years in Chile. This can be seen in the feminist protests all around the country, which have made it possible to create laws to protect women and men from the sexist behaviour in the community (rape, catcalls, etc)

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Everyday Feminism - Intersectional feminism for your daily life

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Everyday Feminism is an educational platform for personal and social liberation. Our mission is to help people dismantle everyday violence, discrimination, and marginalization through applied intersectional feminism

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Democrats re-introduced the Paycheck Fairness Act - begun in 1997 - now let's see if Republicans block it yet again

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I wanted to do feminism as it is a concept that is growing in popularity all around the world, making it hard for new comers to understand what it actually is.