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Group behind Women's March announce strike day for all women

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The group behind the Women's March have announced their next political action: a general strike dubbed "a day without a woman".

The group revealed the upcoming event in a Twitter post on Monday.

The date of the strike is to be confirmed, and the group did not hint at what form it would take.

Although details of the strike are not yet available, the concept of a woman's strike is not new.

In 1975, declared a Women's Year by the United Nations, 90 per cent of women in Iceland went on strike to protest pay discrepancies.

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Last October, women across Poland went on strike to protest the country's plan for a total ban on abortions.

The Polish strike, termed "Black Monday", featured women dressed in black and demonstrating on the streets of their cities. More than 24,000 of the women filled Castle Square in Warsaw to protest.

Reports of the number of women involved in the Polish demonstration ranged from 116,000 to six million, although participation was difficult to measure due to the number of women who did not attend work that day but also did not attend a protest, or who went on strike from their home duties.

After the protests, the Polish parliament voted to reject the ban.

The Women's March, on January 21, was a global, and peaceful, protest movement for gender equality, held the day after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump.

Originally planned as a March on Washington, the movement grew to include more than 600 marches taking place on all seven continents.

The Washington March drew crowds of over 500,000, while it has been estimated that five million people took part in marches worldwide, including in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra.