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Watch as an estimated 100,000 Icelandic women go on a nationwide 24-hour strike in the biggest walkout since 1975. Women refused to cook, clean, or do unpaid care work. They took to the streets demanding greater gender equality and protested against the gender pay gap, gender-based violence, and sexual violence.

Known as “women’s day off” or “Kvennafrí” in Icelandic, it was the seventh such strike since the first one took place in 1975. In a country where 90% of workers are unionized, unions called on women and non-binary people to refuse to perform paid and unpaid work, including chores. Icelanders awoke to all-male news teams with public transport delayed, hospitals understaffed, and hotel rooms uncleaned as the women’s strike shut down the island nation.

In the country with a population of over 372,000 people, more than a quarter of the country gathered in the capital’s city center to mark the landmark event. The strike was acknowledged by government departments and supported by the largest federation of public sector unions, the Federation of the Public Workers Union in Iceland (BSRB) along with the Icelandic Nurses’ Association and the Icelandic Association of Women’s Associations.

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