On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by “The Women’s Congress”, which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as “Women’s Day Off”, 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who “represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland”, according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women’s Strike also helped inspire the 2016 “Black Monday” anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the “International Women’s Strike”, single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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gf wants me to look at houses, so I DO, but WOOPS, all the houses that are affordable and nice and not 30 minutes drive from my job are “in bad parts of town” where “people get shot”\
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING KITCHEN. I cannot stress enough how fucked up, out of my mind chef-horny it’s making me
one of TWO houses I’ve seen so far with a gas range, and the other doesn’t have a fuckin’ driveway so that’s a nope too ughhhhh
LOOK AT THIS FUCKING BATHTUB
IT’S GOT A FENCED IN YARD, WITH A FUCKING CHICKEN COOP
AND IT’S ONLY 195000 DOLLARS
we can literally only afford it BECAUSE IT’S “IN THE GHETTO”, FUCKKKKK
I don’t want to have to drive 30+ minutes to work because I’m the one with an in-person job and we have to live in the middle of nowhere so that there’s no “random gun violence”
that is the ghetto? Where do you live, Star Trek?
Also decades of 25/8 if it bleeds it leads crime reporting has utterly warped people’s perceptions of violence in society.
It has one of those cool pan rack things! It’s under 200k! Jump on it!
My gf said “two homes within two minutes drive of this place have been shot into on the past month” but i’m just like… so? They were probably in some sketchy gang shit. I don’t believe people just randomly shoot up houses for fun
The neighborhood isn’t as nice as the house though, the street is all cracked (but patched) and shit
I think the previous owners were scared people too because oit’s the only house on the street that doesn’t show up on google street view, it’s very conspicuously blurred
That describes large areas of most American urban centers.
Like, feeling safe in your home is absolutely a critical thing, but also 200k and a pot rack…
If you have chickens in the “ghetto” and give all your neighbours eggs you will be better protected than if you lived in some bougie neighbourhood.
i literally just had like, some sort of convulsion, some chill ran through me looking at that kitchen, like, god fucking damnnnnnnnn