Women workers in Spain are marking International Women's Day with an unprecedented strike targeting gender inequality and sexual discrimination.
Work was being halted as part of a 24-hour strike organised by the 8 March Commission and backed by 10 unions and some of Spain's top women politicians.
Hundreds of marches with the slogan "if we stop, the world stops" are planned.
International Women's Day events are also being held in dozens of other nations across the world.
Women taking part will stop work and have been urged by organisers to spend no money and ditch any domestic chores for the day.
One of the effects will be the cancellation of 300 trains on Thursday, the transport ministry said, with Madrid's underground network also disrupted.
Marches in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia and a number of other cities were leading events in 200 Spanish locations.
Source : bbc
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