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The Guardian - UK
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International Women’s Day website owners urged to stop ‘exploiting’ day

International Women's Day merchandise
A Guardian report found that a London-based marketing firm operated the website that many brands mistakenly understood to be linked to International Women’s Day. Photograph: .

More than 900 people have signed an open letter to the owners of the website internationalwomensday.com demanding that it “contribute meaningfully” or step aside.

“It is our strong belief that you have been exploiting a social movement for financial gain, without addressing any of the genuine structural issues the day was founded on,” stated the letter, authored by two UK-based professionals and circulating widely on social media.

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