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

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.

  • apis@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Still amounts to more time in the workplace, forced or otherwise.

    It isn’t a comment on whether that is what men want or are ok with. Ditto employees generally.

    Certainly a major strand of reducing the gender pay gap will be about fixing rights, practices & attitudes surrounding paternity leave.