Sat. Mar 14th, 2026

Iceland’s Prime Minister will join the women’s general strike

Tens of thousands of women – including PM of Iceland Katrín Jakobsdóttir – will stop all work on Tuesday, whether paid or unpaid, in a women’s strike whose organizers want to highlight a “21% gender pay gap” and suffering gender-based violence

Teachers, nurses, and an array of other professions will refuse to work as part of ‘kvennafrí’ – women’s day off. 

The last strike of this kind took place in the country in 1975. /TelegraphNews


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