More than a million people are estimated to have participated in women's marches across the world on Saturday.

Here is a running total of the attendance at the marches with turn-out estimates:

New York City: More than 200,000

Los Angeles: 100,000 were expected to join the march.

Boston: 100,000, according to the Boston Globe.

Denver: 100,000, according to the Denver Post.

London: 100,000, according to The Independent.

Seattle: 50,000 were expected to attend, according to KIRO 7.

New Zealand: Marches took place in four cities with 2,000 people taking demonstrating, Reuters reported. </s> Women (and men) didn’t just march in Washington, D.C., on Saturday — they marched worldwide. While more than half a million people turned out in the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington, hundreds of thousands of others participated in 650 other “sister marches” across the 50 states and in select cities around the world. Globally, people turned out in larger numbers than anticipated, with the number of marchers in D.C. far surpassing the tally of those who attended the presidential inauguration. Estimates at the Mall placed the total attendees at 500,000 marchers; so many people they almost didn’t get the chance to formally march. Similar numbers were reported in New York and Los Angeles, with large amounts of people turning out in cities such as Boston, Denver, and London.



As of Saturday evening, an estimated 4,625,000 people attended marches in cities as close as New York and as far away as Antarctica.

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On Jan. 21, 2017 — the day after President Trump’s inauguration — the flagship Women’s March in Washington, D.C., drew roughly 500,000 people, with between 3 and 5 million participating in marches around the U.S.

According to organizers, it was meant to "send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women's rights are human rights.”

On Saturday, galvanized by the #MeToo movement, demonstrations began in Washington, Miami, New York, Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, and even in places outside the U.S. in cities like Rome, Paris, Athens, Barcelona, and Toronto.

Saturday’s demonstrations came on the first day of the federal government shutdown. Demonstrations are also planned around the U.S. and the globe for Sunday. </s> Hundreds of demonstrations around the world are being planned for Jan. 21 in conjunction with the Women’s March on Washington, which is expected to be the largest inauguration-related demonstration in United States history.

The March Route in Washington

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Organizers have estimated that 200,000 people could participate in the Washington rally, which will begin at 10 a.m. near the southeast corner of the National Mall. The march is scheduled to start at 1:15 p.m. and will proceed toward the White House.

Participants are traveling to Washington from all over the country, with many arriving by bus. Many more are expected to participate in hundreds of sister marches throughout the United States.

Women’s Marches Around the Nation

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March organizers have said the event’s primary focus is to promote equal rights for women and to defend marginalized groups. “The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world, that women's rights are human rights,” the group’s website says.

More than 200 organizations have signed on as partners for the march, including Planned Parenthood, the NAACP, the National Organization for Women and Human Rights Watch. Cher, Katy Perry and Amy Schumer are among the celebrities who have said they will attend.

Women’s Marches Around the World

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Participants outside the United States say they are marching in solidarity with American women and standing up for the rights of women in their own countries.

“The recent elections in the United States have shown how real the threat is to our collective rights and liberties,” says the Facebook event page for the Women’s March on Nairobi. The page for the London event, which 23,000 Facebook users have said they will attend, says, “we will march...for the protection of our fundamental rights and for the safeguarding of freedoms threatened by recent political events.”

Led by Mrs. Richard Coke Burleson (center, on horseback), suffragists marched on Pennsylvania Avenue on March 3, 1913, the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. Library of Congress

A previous women’s movement found success in an inauguration-related demonstration. The Women’s Suffrage Parade of 1913, in which an estimated 5,000 to 8,000 suffragists marched on Pennsylvania Avenue the day before President Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, drew attention to the women’s suffrage movement as thousands of spectators in Washington for the inauguration witnessed the procession.

Historians consider the parade a major milestone for the movement to win women the right to vote. It is set to be depicted on the back of a redesigned $10 bill in 2020. </s> What started as a march is turning into a movement. This year’s March for Science will involve rallies on 14 April in more than 200 cities, as a sequel to last year’s inaugural march in protest of president Donald Trump and his administration’s anti-science rhetoric. This time around, the day of protest aims to be more than just crowds of people wielding witty signs – though those will likely still be in high supply.

“The theme of the march last year has hardened and endured into this year,” says David Kanter, co-organiser of the New York City march. “Given that last year it was the early months of the Trump administration, there was more anxiety there. But the ultimate goals of building a community of science advocates and influencing policy with science are still the driving forces.”

In Washington, DC, crowds will descend on the National Mall for a morning of talks and performances before the march. Cities around the world have adapted the March for Science to their own communities, including seminars to encourage more scientific activism. Marches in other places, including New York City and London, will also promote voter registration efforts.

“We’re hoping people come away from the march knowing more about organisations in their own backyard,” says Jillian Sequeira, a coordinator of the London March for Science. For the New York organisers, the focus is on influencing local and national politics. “Our driving concern is making sure that the work of scientists is used in decision-making to make smart policy,” says Kanter.

An estimated 1.3 million people attended about 450 March for Science rallies around the globe last year. A survey of 20,000 of those marchers conducted by Edward Maibach and Teresa Myers at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, found that 27 per cent were scientists, and 25 per cent worked in a science-affiliated job, while students comprised 8 per cent of marchers. A quarter of the marchers said they don’t work in a scientific field, but care about science. The attendees were highly educated, with 63 per cent holding a graduate or professional degree, and an additional 27 per cent had a Bachelor’s degree.

Estimates for this year’s turnout are lower than last year – from a few hundred in London to between 5 and 10 thousand in New York City, according to organisers.

The march goes on

Since the 2017 march, more scientists than ever have run for political office, Kanter says. There has also been a shift in science funding in the US. Trump’s draconian budget request – which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others – was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

“I would attribute a lot of the holding the line on science funding on sustained activism from scientists and their supporters,” says Michael Halpern at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But he says that budgets don’t tell the whole story – there’s still a lot to march for.

“They’re marching because they see EPA administrator Scott Pruitt go against his scientific advisers and fail to ban chemicals shown to cause damage to children’s brains. They’re seeing people at the Department of the Interior kicked out of their jobs [working] on climate change. They’re seeing scientists at the CDC being told they can’t use words like ‘evidence based’ and ‘transgender’ and ‘fetus’ in describing their work,” he says.

Kanter agrees that there’s still reason to take to the streets. “There are science posts in the government not being filled, or being filled by inadequately trained people. The reason we’re still marching is that the goal of the march – use of evidence in policy-making – still isn’t being fulfilled in our politics today.”

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Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marked the first anniversary of the national women's march in cities across the country on Saturday, vowing that last year's massive turnout was only the first stage of a movement protesting President Donald Trump, as many politicians sought to add their voices, too.

According to local media reports, organizers said some 300,000 people attended the rally in Chicago — far more than were expected. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said 120,00 people attended a protest there. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, also a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that 600,000 people turned out for its rally.

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At its 2 p.m. peak, last year's Washington march drew some 470,000 marchers in a pointed protest to Trump's inauguration that stunned political observers and galvanized burgeoning opposition to the new president.

This year's focus is on Las Vegas, where marchers will gather Sunday, though news footage showed large swells of protesters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Denver. According to the march's official website, protests are planned for both Saturday and Sunday in almost every state and around the world.

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Celebrities attending various events included Jane Fonda, Eva Longoria and Scarlett Johansson. Attorney Gloria Allred attended the Park City, Utah march. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, attended the D.C. march.

"Today we're sending Trump another message, look out your window," Toni Van Pelt, president of the National Organization for Women, told marchers in Washington. "See us, hear us, feel our power. You can't stop us with your tweets, you can't stop us with your bullying and you can't stop us with your hate speech."

Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez emphasized the number of women running on the party's ticket in November.

"If the Congress, if the White House, if the governorships across America had more women like I see here today, we would be a much better America," Perez said.

In Washington, congressional hopefuls like Nadia Hashimi used the platform to highlight their campaigns. Hashimi is running to replace Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.), who has announced his intentions to run for president in 2020 and is not seeking reelection. The Cook Political report rates the seat as a safe Democratic district.

"I attended this march last year. I was outraged,” said Nadia Hashimi, who is running to become the first Afghan woman elected to Congress. “I stood with fellow physicians, ready to demand change, and this year I stand in front of this crowd as a candidate because I decided, like so many of you, that enough is enough, and if we are the majority then we should look like it.”

Trump took to Twitter to give his personal take on the marchers on Saturday afternoon: "Beautiful weather all over our great country, a perfect day for all Women to March. Get out there now to celebrate the historic milestones and unprecedented economic success and wealth creation that has taken place over the last 12 months. Lowest female unemployment in 18 years!"

At a protest in New Jersey, Tammy Murphy, wife of the newly inaugurated Gov. Phil Murphy, told fellow protesters that she had been sexually assaulted in college. According to local media reports, attendees grew silent as Tammy Murphy recounted her assault and encouraged other women to come forward.

"Until today, only a few have heard my story," Murphy said, according to an NJ.com report. "Now, you all know. I tell this today not for me, but really for all of you. Surely, among us is a woman who has been silent about her own story.

While the march was planned before the government shutdown, multiple speakers emphasized that Democratic lawmakers need to hold their ground on legal protections for so-called Dreamers, a key sticking point in the ongoing government funding negotiations.

Trump made the decision to end DACA, an Obama-era immigration executive order, last year, but delayed the repeal until March.

Organizers have said that they are focusing on Nevada because of its importance in November's midterm elections. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton narrowly carried the state in 2016 and Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) is widely viewed as one of the most endangered GOP incumbents — a must-take seat for Democrats in their quest for the majority. </s> PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – People across the world marched and rallied in the name of science Saturday.

The largest “March for Science” took place in Washington, D.C.

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Boston was another of the more than 200 cities around the globe that held rallies.

Participants called for policymakers to consult with experts before making decisions, and to enact evidence-based policies that serve all communities.
Marches occur across the U.S. and throughout the world, with 408 reported marches in the U.S. and 168 marches reported in other countries.