Why Iceland’s Katrin Jakobsdottir Is on Strike
Tens of thousands of Icelandic women, including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, are participating in the first full-day women’s strike in nearly 50 years on Tuesday. The kvennafrí, or “women’s day off,” includes both paid and unpaid work, and protests the gender pay gap and gender-based violence in the Nordic island nation. “As you know, we … Read more