US Edition50 Years Ago, the Women of Iceland Took a Day Off—and Inspired the World
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50th anniversary of the 1975 ‘women’s day off’ strike
For one day in 1975, 90% of the women in Iceland took the day off. They stopped working. Stopped cooking. Stopped cleaning. And gathered in the streets to demand equality. 50 years later, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour speaks to Icelandic president Halla Tómasdóttir about what progress the nation has made towards greater gender equality.
Red cushions on which activists settled – this is how the Dornbirn Market Square presented itself on Friday. The women symbolically laid down their work and thus followed their role models on Iceland: 50 years ago, a strike was initiated there by the "Rødstrømpern", a feminist group. The "Krone" was there. The event in Dornbirn should remember that equality is not a self-run. At that time, 90 percent of the Icelandic women settled their work – i…
Fifty years ago, the Icelandic women went out of their way and paralyzed the country. It was the most successful women's strike of all time – with after-effects to this day.
It was on 24 October 1975 that the so-called Women's Free Day was held, a day of famine that accounted for 90% of the country's female population's membership, to report wage differences and treatment at the workplace. About 60 Icelandic organizations joined in the name of Kvennaar (Women's Year) to organize a series of actions that culminate on this day. The promoters of the initiative denounced the increase in gender violence in recent years, …
There were a large crowd at Arnarhóll today as they celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first Women's Day in 1975 with a women's strike. Women across the country stopped paid and unpaid work to mark the day, and many left their workplaces at 1:30 p.m.
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