An estimated 1 in 100 Americans marched for women on Saturday
On Saturday, at least 3 million women, children, and men gathered in Washington, D.C., for a Women's March and in more than 650 other cities and towns around the world for "sister" marches, broadly speaking to stand up for women's rights and protest President Donald Trump on the first full day of his presidency. Crowd sizes are difficult to measure accurately, and though the National Park Service does put a figure on crowds on the National Mall, the estimates are politically sensitive enough that Congress barred the agency from releasing them in 1996.
By all accounts, though, the turnout at the marches exceeded the expectations of the organizers. By all measurable metrics, more people showed up to protest Trump in Washington than to see him sworn in on Friday — three times more, according to an estimate by crowd scientists for The New York Times. Here's a look at some of the numbers:
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