If it all goes according to plan on Wednesday, women will be teaming up in droves to celebrate the "day without women" by refusing to shop (except at women or minority-owned businesses) and by, above all, refusing to work.
The intent is to send a message, organizers say, to show solidarity in the name of a host of issues, ranging from raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and ensuring reproductive freedom with "full access and no coercion" to halting "racist and sexual assaults, and all forms of bigotry."
The teachers union plans to piggyback on the "Day Without Women" strike by holding a "walk-in." A union statement says the stall in contract talks is related to teachers being mostly women.
