MONTREAL - A diverse group of women united under a wide set of concerns downtown at Norman Bethune Square Thursday to mark International Women's Day.
One thing they had in common, other than being soaked by a steady downpour, was their concern for women's issues.
One woman interviewed by CTV Montreal focused on the ongoing issue of gender income disparity.
"Women make 74 percent of what men make in a year, that's still the case of some of the younger women, regardless of the field, something needs to be resolved," said Alex Conradi. "It can be resolved by employers taking it on and government pushing for pay equity."
Other issues tackled included sexism in advertising and the refusal of government to recognize the academic degrees earned by immigrant women overseas.
And still others attended to voice the grievances of tuition strikers.
"Education has played a major role in women's emancipation today and also it's been demonstrated in studies that they'll be most affected by the tuition hike," said graduate student Josianne Millette.
And yet others argued that the condition of women around the world remains of primal concern.
"We tend to not think of women's rights on a global scale which in the end is what the feminist movement is about. I mean certainly it's important to struggle for things at home but we have to look at how our actions at home affect people abroad," said Veronica Crespo of the Rebel Movement.
