Iceland’s PM strikes over gender pay gap

Women in Iceland, including the PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir, are refusing to work on Tuesday. 

The women’s day off has been called in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence.

Tens of thousands of women are expected to take part in the strike. In areas where women are the majority of workers – such as healthcare and education – will be especially affected. 

The planned walkout marks the first full-day women’s strike since 1975.

PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir and women in Iceland are refusing to work

Women and non-binary people have been urged to refuse paid and unpaid work on Tuesday, including household chores/ 

“I will not work this day, as I expect all the women [in cabinet] will do as well,” Iceland’s PM Jakobsdóttir told the mbl.is website ahead of the protest.

Around 80% of workers at the National University Hospital of Iceland, the biggest in the country, are women.

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