Women in Iceland will participate in a ‘Women’s Day Off’ on Tuesday, striking over the nation’s gender pay gap and the prevalence of gender-based violence.
The full-day women’s strike will be the first of its kind in nearly 50 years, with Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir expected to participate. Organisations encourage women to stop all forms of work, whether paid or unpaid, in a workplace or the home.
Iceland has been ranked first on the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index for 14 years in a row — according to the latest Global Gender Gap Report, it is the only country in the world to have closed more than 90 per cent of its “gender gap”. Regarding political representation, Iceland has been led by a female head of state for 25 of the last 50 years, while more than two-fifth of its ministerial and parliamentary positions are held by women.
Source: Icelandic women to stop all paid and unpaid work in pay gap protest