Women’s Marches Across the World, in Photos and Voices of Protest

Women took the streets in cities across the world over the weekend, celebrating gains but also demanding an end to sexual harassment and an equal seat at the political and economic table.

In the United States, with the marches coming on the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s taking office, much of the focus fell on him.

But the demonstrations also came after a year of grueling accounts of women being harassed in the workplace, in the dating arena and even while training for the Olympics.

And so the demands in the U.S. and abroad were even broader then they were when women marched a year ago.

“It’s not just against Trump,” said Lily Manning, 23, who was attending a rally with her mother in Paris across from the Eiffel Tower on a rainy and brutally cold day Sunday.

Manning noted that the #MeToo movement had put the spotlight on women’s rights. “We have more of a platform,” she said. “People are listening.”

Rebecca Park, a 29-year-old American who works at an art history foundation in Paris, said that when she took part in the women’s march last year, she was “motivated by anger and sadness” over Trump’s election.

“This time,” she said, “the goal is to channel those feelings into something productive.”

In London, Harini Iyengar, a spokeswoman for the Women’s Equality Party, was among those marching through the rain and snow. Her group was founded only a few years ago, but is the fastest-growing political party in Britain.

“My placard says, ‘We’ve been marching for 100 years,’ because after 100 years we still haven’t achieved the political will to end sexual violence against women and girls or workplace sexual harassment in the U.K.,” she said.

Another demonstrator, Hannah Mudd, 19, was moved by photos of the Women’s March in the United States.

“It was so inspiring,” she said. “I literally cried. The solidarity — of not being alone.”