March 8, 2024: here's where the girls take to the streets: the marches and demonstrations

Women today have very little to celebrate. The facts say it: in Italy the female employment rate is the lowest among the European Union states, equal to 55 percent, against the 69.3 percent of the European average (the data are from the Chamber of Deputies). There are around 9.5 million women who work, much fewer than men (13 million). And they have one lower paycheckeven when the tasks are the same: according to the INPS Observatory on private sector employees, female workers in the private sector they earn almost 8 thousand euros less than their male colleagues. One woman in 5 (Inapp-Plus data) resigns from her job after the birth of her child, because she is forced to choose between family and career. Every single day, then, according to State Police data, well 85 women are victims of crime – mistreatment in the family, stalking, sexual violence – often at the hands of those who say they love them: in 39% of cases the husband or partner, in 30% the ex-partner.

March 8 has lost its festive connotation, and today International Women's Day is dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women, raise public awareness of gender equality and promote the fight for women's rights. It is a global movement of solidarity, which challenges gender stereotypes and demonstrates that women are protagonists of change and the struggle for autonomy. Today women take to the streets to demand the right to health, abortion and safety at work, and to fight against cuts to social, health and educational services, which make them more exposed to exploitation and violence.

Not One Less has organized demonstrations and marches throughout Italy, as can be seen from the movement's social pages. And remember that «in the 24 hours of March 8th all workers in the public and private sector they can strike because there is general union coverage».

But who can't join the strike he can «dress in black and wear something fuchsiatalk about the strike with colleagues, customers, users, characterize the workplace with information materials, practice partial forms of strike: don't answer the phone, only do what you are actually paid for, do everything extremely slowly and apply all the regulations to the letter so as to work as little as possible.” Not One Less also invites to abstain from care work (“Those who have the greatest load of domestic work on their shoulders stop and abstain, making their contribution and their demands visible, towards a more just consideration and collaboration”) and refuse «to do everything that you feel is imposed on you based on your gender, at home and at work».

And here's a list of parades and activities organized for today by the movement:

DAWN: procession 7.00 pm Piazza Michele Ferrero

ALESSANDRIA: procession 6.00pm Piazzetta della Lega

BOLOGNA: Piazza Maggiore activities from 9.30am; procession 5.00 pm Piazza XX Settembre

BRESCIA: procession 6.00 pm Piazza della Loggia

CAGLIARI: Constitution Square 10.30am procession and activities to follow; 6.30pm open mic

CAMPOBASSO: procession 4.00 pm Park XXV November

CARPI: garrison 6.00 pm Piazza Martiri

CATANIA: procession 9.30 Piazza Annibale Riccò

FLORENCE: activities from 3.00 pm Piazza Santissima Annunziata

GENOA: procession 6.00 pm Piazza Caricamento

LA SPEZIA: procession 5.30pm Piazza Brin

LIVORNO: procession 5.00 pm Piazza Grande

MANTOVA: activities from 12.00 Piazza dei Mille

MASSA CARRARA: 4.30pm Piazza De Gasperi

MATERA: procession 4.00 pm Viale Loperfido

MESSINA: procession 3.30pm Piazza Cairoli

MILAN: 6.30pm Piazza Duca D'Aosta city procession. The singer Alda will sing «Stai zitta» and will lead the procession.

MODENA: procession 10.00 Largo S. Agostino

NAPLES: 10.30am demonstration at the former Bagnoli clinic; procession 2.30pm Piazza Garibaldi

PADUA: procession 9.30 Piazza Garibaldi and activities to follow

PALERMO: procession 5.30pm Piazza Indipendenza

PAVIA: procession 6.30pm Piazza Vittoria

PISA: procession 3.30pm Piazza Guerrazzi

PISTOIA: procession 5.00 pm Piazza San Francesco

PRATO: activities from 8.30am; 5.30pm noisy walk around the Duomo

REGGIO CALABRIA: activities from 5.30pm Scalinata Teatro F. Cilea

REGGIO EMILIA: procession 6.00 pm Piazza Martiri on 7 July

RIMINI: garrison 6.30pm Piazza Cavour

ROME: procession 10.00 Circo Massimo; garrison 6.00pm Largo Argentina

SAVONA: procession 4.30pm Piazza Giulio II

TURIN: procession 3.00 pm Piazza XVIII Dicembre

TREVISO: procession 7.00pm Station

VENICE: activities from 3.30pm Campo Santa Margherita

VERONA: activities from 3.30pm in Piazza dei Signori