Carly Riley led a group to Lumpkin Hall shouting words through a megaphone.

Riley, a senior English major with a minor in professional writing and women’s studies, is the president of the Women’s Studies Student Club.

Thursday was International Women’s Day. A group of approximately 15 people met outside Old Main and proceeded to march to Lumpkin Hall.

Penka Skachkova, the coordinator of the women’s studies minor, put the event together. The Women’s Studies Student Club organized and coordinated the march.

“The Women’s Studies Student Organization is hosting this march because of International Women’s Day,” Riley said. “IWD is always on the 8th of March, and it’s a major day of global celebration for the economic, political and social achievements of women.”

The group assembled outside Old Main at 6 p.m. and listened to Skachkova read a speech about women’s rights and why the group was making this demonstration.

“On March 8, 1857 International Women’s Day was started. It was started to fix the inhumane working conditions that women worked in. On March 8, 1908, women march in New York City for International Women’s Day,” she read.

Cars in traffic honked as the group walked to Lumpkin Hall, which excited the group and made them cheer and chant even louder.

The group chanted many different chants including: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, sexism has got to go,” and “What do we want? Equality. When do we want it? Now.”

Another chant was “Celebrate women, celebrate diversity.”

Being an immigrant made the march have a purpose for Sham’ah Md-Yunus, an elementary education professor.

“I’m going to support this because of immigrant faculty and the struggle and success of women,” Md-Yunus said.

A small group came to the march, but the group that did come was very passionate about women’s rights and equality.

Riley encouraged the group to go and tell their friends about what views they were trying to get across.

“We don’t recognize it as much as other countries,” Riley said. “I’m so glad to see so many faces because they will talk to their friend about what we are trying to get across.”

This march was to celebrate how far women have come regarding equality, but also acknowledged what still needs to be done to be an equal.

Sace Elder, assistant professor of history, thought that the march was a good way to celebrate women and all the work that has been done for equality.

“I came tonight to celebrate accomplishments and things still that need to be done,” she said.