The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, said more than 120,000 protesters turned out in Manhattan to attend the day’s march for women’s rights, as hundreds of thousands of others did in cities around the country.
The Women’s March 2018 took place on the anniversary of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, and many of Saturday’s demonstrators expressed displeasure with him in their signs and apparel, which included the double-pointed, pink “pussy hats” made popular last year in reference to an off-color remark Trump made on tape years before winning the presidency.
The women gathered to call for equal rights in pay and health care, to denounce sexual harassment, and to encourage women to run for office.
Members of the "Texas Handmaids" lead a women's march to the Texas State Capitol on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration, Jan. 20, 2018, in Austin, Texas. The costumes are a nod to "The Handmaid's Tale," a novel and television series that tell the story of a dystopian future in which women's rights are suppressed and a class of women are used solely for reproductive purposes.
Marchers also addressed other issues, such as racial equality, gun control, immigrant protections, and conservatives’ efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.
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