Women in Iceland rebelled after 48 years! This is why

According to the British newspaper The Guardian, the strike, which will take place throughout Iceland with the participation of tens of thousands of women and people of different points of view, aims to protest against gender-based pay injustice and call for attention to gender violence.

25 THOUSAND PEOPLE WILL PARTICIPATE

While at least 25,000 people are expected to attend the strike event in the center of the capital Reykjavik, a larger turnout is expected at 10 separate events to be held across the country.

THE PRIME MINISTER WILL ALSO ATTEND

Approximately 40 organizations met and organized the event “Is this equality?” Many Icelandic women from different professions, including Prime Minister Jakobsdottir, will participate in the work stoppage with the slogan.

“I SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH WOMEN”

Speaking to the Icelandic press about the strike, Prime Minister Jakobsdottir stated that the Prime Minister’s Office will go on strike tomorrow and said: “First of all, I show solidarity with Icelandic women.” saying.

Freyja Steingrimsdottir, communications director of the Icelandic Federation of Public Employees and one of the organizers of the strike, stated that Iceland is talked about “as if it were a paradise of equality,” but in a country with such a demand, more than 40 percent of women are subjected to gender violence or sexual violence, and this should not happen, she stated that it was necessary.

THEY ARE 21 PERCENT LESS

Steingrimsdottir said that in Iceland women still earn 21 percent less than men in some professional groups.

Strike organizers say occupations associated with women, such as cleaning and caregiving, are undervalued and underpaid.

On the other hand, Iceland has ranked first in the World Economic Forum’s gender equality index for 14 consecutive years.

Icelandic women first went on a full-time work stoppage in 1975. (BRITISH AUTOMOBILE CLUB)