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Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap

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PM will take part in stoppage by women and non-binary people calling for pay equality and action on gender-based violence

Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap

Organisers hope the women’s strike – whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katrín Jakobsdóttir – will bring society to a standstill to draw attention to the country’s ongoing gender pay gap and widespread gender-based and sexual violence.

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