Bangladeshi women hold placards during a rally to mark the International Women's Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 8, 2018, which is celebrated every year on the same day. (Photo by A.M. Ahad/AP Photo)





Activists participate in a march to call for an end to violence against women during International Women's Day in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 8, 2018. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters)





A Bangladeshi woman wearing masks take part in a rally to mark International Women's Day in Dhaka on March 8, 2018. Thousands of Bangladeshi women, non-governmental organisations and rights groups activists took to the streets demanding safer lives for women in the country as well as an improvement in their social conditions. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





A young woman wearing a t-shirt reading “p*ssy Power” takes part in a rally, demonstrating against gender violence and calling for gender parity on March 8, 2018 in Milan, Italy. International Women's Day is a global day observed on March 8 every year, celebrating the social and political achievements of women. (Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)





A woman wears knickers as a mask during a demonstration on International Women's Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 8, 2018. (Photo by Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)





A protester hangs gloves with messages while taking part in a strike for women's rights in Portugalete, Spain, March 8, 2018, on International Women's Day. (Photo by Vincent West/Reuters)





A mock coffin is reflected in the glasses of an activist during a protest to mark International Women's Day at a memorial for women murder victims in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico March 7, 2018. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





Susanne Jungo climbs up the Prison Tower for the “50-50 more women in politics” event, which launches a campaign to have an equal representation of women in Swiss politics for the national elections in 2019 and beyond, in Bern, Switzerland March 8, 2018. (Photo by Stefan Wermuth/Reuters)





Feminists take part in a rally for gender equality and against violence towards women on International Women' s Day in Saint Petersburg on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Olga Maltseva/AFP Photo)





Sculpture is covered with black mask during a demonstration for women's rights on International Women's Day, in Oviedo, Spain March 8, 2018. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)





McDonald's «M» logo is turned upside down in honour of International Women's Day in Lynwood, California on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Courtesy McDonald's/Reuters)





Protesters stage a demonstration as part of a nationwide women's strike against gender inequality that coincides with International Women's Day in Bilbao, Spain March 8, 2018. (Photo by Vincent West/Reuters)





Activists take part in a rally on International Women's Day in Manhattan in New York City, New York on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Elizabeth Shafiroff/Reuters)





A woman shows a noose around her neck as she takes part in a rally to mark International Women's Day in Santiago, Chile on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





A woman hold sign as she takes part in an Aurat March, or Women's March in Karachi, Pakistan on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)





A woman participates in a demonstration as part of International Women's Day in Asuncion, Paraguay on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Jorge Adorno/Reuters)





Demonstrators hold posters as they march for more liberal Irish abortion laws, in Dublin, Ireland on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





An assembly factory employee takes part in a self-defence class with a policewoman as part of a police program in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)





Women participate in a demonstration as part of International Women's Day in Montevideo, Uruguay on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Andres Stapff/Reuters)





Activists participate in a march to call for an end to violence against women during International Women's Day in San Salvador, El Salvador on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Jose Cabezas/Reuters)





Women take part in a march to mark International Women's Day in Santiago, Chile on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)





Participants stand behind security barriers during a rally on the International Women's Day in Diyarbakir, Turkey on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Sertac Kayar/Reuters)





A protester holds a poster reading “Revolution” during a demonstration for women's rights on International Women's Day, in Bilbao, Spain on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Vincent West/Reuters)





Acid attack survivors walk on the runway during a fashion show to mark International Women's Day in Thane on the outskirts of Mumbai, India on March 7, 2018. (Photo by Danish Siddiqui/Reuters)





Women begin the feminist strike with a pan's meeting at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid, Spain, 08 March 2018. 'If we stop, the world stops' is the slogan for the feminist movement which has called for the first general feminist strike planning more than two hundred events in Spain and demonstrations in all the province's main cities. International Women Day is celebrated worldwide on 08 March. (Photo by Juanjo Martin/EPA/EFE)





An activist with the phrase “We are in Mourning” written over her body takes part in a march to mark International Women's Day in Managua, Nicaragua on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters)





Women wear knickers as masks during a demonstration on International Women's Day in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)





Young women light flares during the Women March against Violence as part of International Women's day, on March 8, 2018 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Bertorello/AFP Photo)





A young woman takes part in the Women March against Violence as part of International Women's day, on March 8, 2018 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Bertorello/AFP Photo)





Students take part in a rally, demonstrating against gender violence and calling for gender parity on March 8, 2018 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Emanuele Cremaschi/Getty Images)





Female workers supporting the MeToo movement wearing black attend a rally to mark the International Women's Day in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, March 8, 2018. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)





A Bangladeshi woman holding a placard takes part in a rally to mark International Women's Day in Dhaka on March 8, 2018. Thousands of Bangladeshi women, non-governmental organizations and rights groups activists took to the streets demanding safer lives for women in the country as well as an improvement in their social conditions. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Photo)





People hold banners and placards as they take part in a march marking International Women's Day in Athens, Greece on March 8, 2018. (Photo by Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP Photo)