Women's day and public transport strike: can you explain the connection?

Italy is a wonderfully strange country, and once again, unfortunately, it confirms it. Tomorrow will be 8 March, Women's Day, which this year will be celebrated on an international scale with a strike against violence and discrimination. of gender, which will involve 40 countries of the world. Not only mimosas and gestures that are only apparently symbolic therefore, for this festival that takes on the most dense and profound tones of a real struggle in the name of the protection and affirmation of women's rights. Game on the initiative of Women’s March and other feminist movements, including the Italian Not one less, this day intends in fact to support the fight against all types of gender discrimination, abuse and violence, and therefore leads to the freedom of abstention from work. And so far, so good.

It happens, however, that on the same day there will be a national strike of public transport, it seems, to show solidarity with women and their protest movements in the name of gender discrimination. Now, all of this frankly seems pretty bizarre to us. Yes, because we struggle to understand how riots with a lot of suppression of trains and suspension of public transport service, can be considered a help to women, who on this day should be free to go to work, demonstrate or simply continue their life, as if nothing had happened. Honestly, we struggle to understand the connection.

We would like to say that perhaps, to express solidarity, it would have been possible to act in other ways, for example to give the salary of the day of March 8 to female colleagues who work in the public transport service, given the inequality and disproportion of salaries affecting different fields and sectors. Or perform your service regularly, showing off a fuchsia or black garment or accessory, the colors chosen for the "protest", so as to express your solidarity in a non-invasive way. In short, any way, but certainly not limiting the freedom of movement of women. It seems that we still have something to learn from these countries, which are decidedly more women friendly ...