Hundreds gathered in Houston on Saturday to march for the second year in a row for women's rights.
The second Women's March in Houston got underway at 9:30 a.m. with a walk from Buffalo Bayou Cistern on Allen Parkway to City Hall, where a rally was scheduled for 11 a.m. Mayor Sylvester Turner was scheduled to speak.
Some women wore pink hats, others carried signs that read "Make America Think Again" and "Time's Up." Before the march, Laura Moser, founder of the Daily Action, organized a rally where women voiced their concerns on issues that hadn't changed since last year.
"This is just as historic a day as last year, " Moser said to the women gathered.
Kandice Webber, of Black Lives Matter Houston, urged women to consider the plight of minority women marching around them.
"Its time for us to start checking our privilege, it's time for us to start checking our biases," said Webber.
Women's marches were happening in cities across the country today, with the largest set for Las Vegas. Last year, massive rallies were held in the aftermath of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who has faced allegations of sexual harassment. More than 20,000 women marched last year in Houston.
As Saturday's march got underway, chants began, such as "We want a leader, not a creepy tweeter."
But activists stressed that the march is about more than the controversial president.
"We march because women are still "less than" in America," wrote former Mayor Annise Parker and Robin Paoli in a recent Chronicle editorial. "Men make more money, hold more elected offices, lead more companies, make more laws, are quoted more frequently and have more screen time in movies. Are men that much worthier than women? No. Women are just as worthy as men, but women are not treated with equity, so we persist and march for equal rights under law."