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For the first time in Greece, women organizations and unions launch a Feminist Strike and are calling on female workers and students to refrain from their obligations on March 8th.
Feminist organizations, women’s collectives, trade unions and women branches of political parties call on workers in the private and public sector, farmers, students, and all women to stop their work, to not go shopping and abstain from their family obligation during the whole day.
“Women continue to be the majority of the unemployed and long-term unemployed, get paid less than men for the same job, are under-represented in parliament, get indirectly excluded from political and economic decisions, are subject to gender violence and are forced to be victims of forced labor prostitution,” said Professor Maria Gatsouka during a press conference.
“We are still fighting against the rise of the far-right, to avoid going back to 1933 and the triptych Children-Church-Kitchen,” she added.
There is a 2-hour work stoppage in Greek media and other institutions.
A march is scheduled for 2 o’ clock Thursday afternoon at Klafthmonos Square in downtown Athens.
In the strike participate public and private sector unions ADEDY and GSEE and the women’s department of center-left parties SYRIZA, KINAL/PASOK, KIDISO and Green/Ecologists.
The Feminist Strike began as International Women’s Strike in 2016, on the initiative of feminist organizations from countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
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