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New York Women's Strike
In what turned out to be the largest protest of its kind in the United States, 20,000 women took to the streets of New York to strike for equality. Motivated by a desire to draw attention to inequalities in the workplace, marriage and education, the women took over Fifth Avenue in the city and attracted huge media attention.
Carole de Saram, then 31, was working in the New York Stock Exchange but decided to join the march and ultimately became a leading figure in the US feminist movement.
