London CNN —Women across Iceland – including the prime minister – will go on strike Tuesday as part of a campaign pushing for greater gender equality in the country.
This will be the seventh time that women in Iceland strike in the name of gender equality, campaign organizers said on their official website.
“On 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,” organizers said.
“They revealed that while Iceland has made internationally recognized progress on gender equality, we have not sufficiently confronted the intersections of gender, racial and class injustices,” she wrote.
Persons:
–, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, ”, ” Jakobsdóttir, Jakobsdóttir, “
Organizations:
London CNN —, Icelandic, Federation of, Public Workers Union, Icelandic Nurses ’ Association, Icelandic Association of Women’s, CNN
Locations:
Iceland, “