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[quote=Anonymous]Isn't the point of the Iceland protest that it was in fact a time when women didn't have equal rights? Today we can talk about the pay gap or the fact that the ERA never passed or access to healthcare/abortion, but women have equal rights under the law and, perhaps more importantly, culture has evolved such that women generally have a choice about whether to work or SAH. To the extent they don't have a choice, it's based more on economic realities. So, I can see why the quasi-socialist aspects of the Women's March platform resonate, but I do not see how those aspects are advanced by encouraging women in the professional class to take the day off in solidarity with lower income women who will almost certainly not be able to take the day off.

This concept made a lot more sense to me w/r/t a day without an immigrant. That is a group of people, particularly the illegal immigrants, for which it is being implied our society either doesn't need them or would be better off without them. I don't get that as applied to women. Can anyone explain a different way to look at this?[/quote]

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