Demonstrators during the Women's March on Washington in January 2017. Rosa Pineda/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Some rights reserved.On 21 January 2017, Trump’s first full day in office, millions gathered in Washington DC, and around the world, to join the Women’s March. It was the first mass social movement response to Donald Trump’s election – and it was initiated, organised and led by women.
What started as a Facebook post from a retired attorney in Hawaii became the largest single-day protest in US history. An estimated 4 million people marched in the United States, according to numbers compiled by researchers at universities in Connecticut and Denver.
Carmen Perez was one of the four national co-chairs of the Women’s March, and is now a board member of the organisation that grew from it.
