In the United States, what name was used for the March 8, 2017 strike on International Women's Day?

In the United States, the March 8, 2017 strike on International Women’s Day was called “A Day Without a Woman.”

The action asked women to refrain from paid and unpaid work, avoid shopping except at selected small or women- and minority-owned businesses, and wear red in solidarity. It was promoted by organizers of the 2017 Women’s March and connected to broader International Women’s Strike activism.

The protest followed the large Women’s March held after Donald Trump’s January 2017 inauguration. Organizers used the strike to highlight women’s economic contributions and oppose policies they viewed as harmful to women, immigrants, people of color, and LGBTQ+ communities.

A common mix-up is “Women’s March,” which was the name of the January demonstration and its organizing movement, not the March 8 strike itself. “Day Without Immigrants” was a separate 2017 protest that helped inspire some of the strike’s tactics.