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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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[–] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

There can be no ignoring of the suffering of men in examining the pay gap,

It's nice that you see it that way, but the article ignored it the whole way through, never mentioning it once.