And women across the world took to the streets to mark International Women’s Day on Thursday. In Spain, women launched the first-ever nationwide feminist strike. In Italy, women led a major transportation strike that shut down many trains, buses and flights across Italy. In Argentina, tens of thousands of women marched, only days after Argentine lawmakers agreed for the first time to debate the legalization of abortion. Rallies were also held from Afghanistan to South Korea to India to the Syrian-Turkish border.

In the United States, teachers in Arizona wore red to work and discussed a possible strike, on the heels of the successful West Virginia teachers’ strike, where most of the teachers are women. In New York City, hundreds marched through downtown Manhattan. This is Genesis Aquino, a university student and member of the Laundry Workers Center.

Genesis Aquino: “As an immigrant, as a black woman, my life is affected a lot by all these policies that the new administration is trying to put in place. My livelihood is being put in danger. So we are fighting for better housing rights, for labor rights, for safe conditions, for anti-harassment and just to live safe and to be able to be alive, you know? For less police killings.”

Later in the broadcast, we’ll speak with The New York Times editor who has launched a new series called “Overlooked,” which is publishing obituaries about extraordinary women who did not receive New York Times obituaries at the time of their deaths.