Tens of thousands of Icelandic women, including the country’s prime minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, have gone on strike.
Women and non-binary people were urged to go on strike from paid and unpaid jobs on Tuesday in a protest against gender inequality.Iceland is regarded as one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of gender equality and has topped the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index 14 years in a row.
Under the slogan ‘Do you call this equality?’, Icelandic women will go on their first full-day strike in 48 years.
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