Women across Iceland \u2013 including the prime minister \u2013 will go on strike Tuesday as part of a campaign pushing for greater gender equality in the country. <\/p>\n
This will be the seventh time that women in Iceland strike in the name of gender equality, campaign organizers said on their official website. The first strike took place on October 24, 1975. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn 24 October, all women in Iceland, including immigrant women, are encouraged to stop work, both paid and unpaid. For the whole day, women (and non-binary people) will strike, to demonstrate the importance of their contribution to society,\u201d organizers said. <\/p>\n
The strike, which is known as the \u201cWomen\u2019s Day Off\u201d or \u201cKvennafr\u00ed\u201d in Icelandic, hopes to raise awareness about the \u201csystemic\u201d wage discrimination and gender-based violence faced by women in Iceland, according to organizers. <\/p>\n
Icelandic Prime Minister Katr\u00edn Jakobsd\u00f3ttir told Icelandic news site Iceland Monitor on Friday that she will not work on the strike day and expects other female members of government to do the same \u201cin solidarity with Icelandic women.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cAs you know, 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. We are still tackling gender-based violence, which has been a priority for my government to tackle,\u201d Jakobsd\u00f3ttir said. <\/p>\n
Her government had previously committed to eradicating the gender pay gap by 2022. <\/p>\n
Icelandic employers have historically gotten behind the strikes and not prevented or docked the pay of employees who participate, according to organizers. <\/p>\n
This year\u2019s strike has the backing of the country\u2019s largest federation of public workers unions, the Federation of the Public Workers Union in Iceland (BSRB), the Icelandic Nurses\u2019 Association and the Icelandic Association of Women\u2019s Associations, among others. <\/p>\n
Organizers are drawing particular attention to the plight of immigrant women whose \u201cinvaluable\u201d contribution to Icelandic society they say is \u201crarely acknowledged or reflected in the wages they receive. <\/p>\n
Organizers have called on men to show their support for women striking by \u201ctaking on additional responsibilities\u201d in home and at work which will enable female and non-binary partners\/ colleagues to strike. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Icelandic government is focused on a recently launched research project into the wage disparity between professions traditionally dominated by men versus those dominated by women, according to Jakobsd\u00f3ttir. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe are looking at how these jobs are different\u2026 because we estimate that the difference in wages that exists is due to this,\u201d Jakobsd\u00f3ttir said. <\/p>\n\n
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