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Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap (www.theguardian.com)
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Organisers hope the women’s strike – whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katrín Jakobsdóttir – will bring society to a standstill to draw attention to the country’s ongoing gender pay gap and widespread gender-based and sexual violence.

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[-] 520@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wish the UK would do something like this, and they have it worse than the Icelanders.

Heck, I wish they'd get up off their ass about anything. The UK railway strikers had the right idea, no idea why it's limited to them.

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