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Women and nonbinary Icelanders go on a 24-hour strike to protest the gender pay gap
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According to organizers of the strike, women make 21% less than men on average. Immigrant women and women who work in sanitation and with children have some of the lowest wages in the country.
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By Niamh Kennedy, CNN London (CNN) — Women across Iceland – including the prime minister – will go on strike Tuesday as part of a campaign pushing for greater gender equality in the country. This will be the seventh time that women in Iceland strike in the name of gender equality, campaign organizer…
The one-day strike on Tuesday is expected to be the largest walkout by women in the Nordic nation since 1975. Even the prime minister said she would take part.
Thousands of women across Iceland – including the prime minister – went on strike Tuesday as part of a campaign pushing for greater gender equality in the country.
Tuesday’s walkout was billed as the biggest since Iceland’s first such event in 1975, when 90% of women refused to work, clean or look after children, to voice anger at discrimination in the workplace.
Icelanders awoke to all-male news teams announcing shutdowns across the country, with public transport delayed, hospitals understaffed, and hotel rooms uncleaned. Trade unions, the strike’s main organizers, called on women and nonbinary people to refuse paid and unpaid work, including chores.
The protest, in which women are encouraged to stop working for a full day, is intended to highlight challenges including a gender pay gap, the burden of unpaid work within the home and violence against women.
Iceland's prime minister Katrin Jakobsdottir took part in the country's second all-day strike for gender equality, saying that the fight for equality is moving too slowly in the island nation.
The protest, in which women stopped working for a full day, is intended to highlight challenges including a gender pay gap and disproportionate violence.
Observers said thousands of Iceland's women, including its prime minister, went on a one-day strike on Tuesday to protest a gender pay gap there long with gender-based violence.
Icelandic Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir went on strike to protest gender discrimination and stated the country is still fighting for gender quality.A nationwide "women's strike" protest was meant to call out pay discrimination, gendered violence, and inequality between the sexes in general.
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