Iceland's Women, Prime Minister Included, Strike for a Full Day
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEABC[1] News (Reuters), posted 24 Oct 2023 UTC: "Icelandic women went on a 24-hour strike on Tuesday over gender inequality, including the prime minister".
Thousands of Icelandic women and non-binary people stopped paid and unpaid work on 24 October 2023, the first full-day women's strike since 1975, over the pay gap and gender-based violence; Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir stayed home too.
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