Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland announced Tuesday night that schools would be closed on Wednesday. Approximately 1,700 teachers, and 30 percent of the transportation staff, requested leave to observe “A Day Without a Woman” a strike created to coincide with International Women’s Day.
Women’s March organizers have encouraged women to take the day off from paid and unpaid labor March 8 and for supporters of the movement to only spend money at small, women- and minority-owned businesses.
Hundreds of thousands of protesters in the U.S. and abroad participated in women’s marches in opposition to the policies of President Donald Trump on January 21.
