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PM Katrin Jakobsdottir joins other women in Iceland on strike for equal pay
Updated On: 25 October, 2023 09:27 AM IST | Reykjavik | Agencies
Organisers called on women and nonbinary people to refuse both paid and unpaid work, including household chores, during the one-day strike
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Iceland’s Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir. Pic/AP
Iceland’s prime minister and women across the volcanic island nation went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said she would stay home as part of the “women’s day off,” and expected other women in her Cabinet would do the same.
“We have not yet reached our goals of full gender equality and we are still tackling the gender-based wage gap, which is unacceptable in 2023,” she told news website mbl.is. “We are still tackling gender-based violence, which has been a priority for my government to tackle.” Organisers called on women and nonbinary people to refuse both paid and unpaid work, including household chores, during the one-day strike.
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