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‘We Have to Show the Value Women Bring to the Workplace’

A dispatch from the “Day Without a Woman” rally in New York
Source: Lucas Jackson / Reuters

NEW YORK, N.Y.—On Wednesday, a small group of around 100 protesters, largely female, gathered just before noon outside the 59th street Apple store in midtown Manhattan for a planned protest called “A Day Without a Woman.”

A makeshift stage had been set up, with many women wearing red as recommended by the organizers, and some donning their “” from January’s Women’s March. Soon, the crowd grew, with women flooding in from all directions. By 12:30

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