1975 strike was a pivotal moment for the country – but 48 years later, Icelanders today protest at gender inequality
hen, as a 20-year-old drama student, Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir joined Iceland’s 1975 women’s strike in Reykjavík – 48 years ago on Tuesday – she says she didn’t consider herself a feminist. But it proved to be a day that would change her life for ever.
On Tuesday, nearly half a century on from that pivotal day when 90% of Iceland’s women stopped work in protest at gender inequality, Icelanders will once again take part in a full-day women’s strike. Tens of thousands of women and non-binary people are expected to drop work – paid and unpaid – to highlight the pay gap and rates of gender-based and sexual violence.
Icelanders have an obligation, she says, “to live up to this picture that we projected out into the world in 1975”. While they have never stopped campaigning, and have continued to make progress, she wishes more had been made.
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