Women workers in Spain are marking International Women’s Day with an unprecedented strike targeting gender inequality and sexual discrimination.
Work was being halted as part of a 24-hour strike organised by the 8 March Commission and backed by 10 unions and some of Spain’s top women politicians.
Hundreds of marches with the slogan “if we stop, the world stops” are planned.
International Women’s Day events are also being held in dozens of other nations across the world.
