Women in Iceland including the prime minister go on strike for equal pay and an end to violence

Ah this is really interesting. Iceland already has the lowest gender pay gap in the world, and they have been doing these strikes for a long time, so it must actually work.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Icelanders awoke to all-male newscaster teams announcing shutdowns across the island nation: schools closed, public transport delayed, hospitals understaffed, hotel rooms uncleaned.

Iceland’s trade unions, the main organizers of the strike, called on women and nonbinary people to refuse both paid and unpaid work, including household chores, for the day.

“We have not yet reached our goals of full gender equality and we are still tackling the gender-based wage gap, which is unacceptable in 2023,” she told news website mbl.is.

Her Cabinet is evenly split between male and female ministers, and nearly half of lawmakers in Iceland’s parliament, the Althingi, are women.

Hand-painted protest signs, posted on social media before the event, hit back at the notion that Iceland is already a paradise for women with the slogan “You call this gender equality?”

Acting Equality Minister Irene Montero said Tuesday that the 2018 strike was inspired by Iceland’s 1975 walkout and expressed full support for the latest protest.

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