{"id":117870,"date":"2023-10-23T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T06:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/icelands-first-full-day-womens-strike-in-48-years-aims-to-close-pay-gap\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T06:15:08","slug":"icelands-first-full-day-womens-strike-in-48-years-aims-to-close-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/icelands-first-full-day-womens-strike-in-48-years-aims-to-close-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland\u2019s first full-day women\u2019s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117870\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nTens of thousands of women and non-binary people across Iceland, including the prime minister, are expected to stop work \u2013 both paid and unpaid \u2013 on Tuesday in the first strike of its kind in nearly half a century. Organisers hope the women\u2019s strike \u2013 whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katr\u00edn Jakobsd\u00f3ttir \u2013 will bring society to a standstill to draw attention to the country\u2019s ongoing gender pay gap and widespread gender-based and sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>The event will mark the first full-day women\u2019s strike since 1975, when 90% of Icelandic women refused to work as part of \u201ckvennafr\u00ed\u201d (women\u2019s day off), leading to pivotal change including the world\u2019s first female elected president of a country. But organisers of the latest strike, some of whom took part in the 1975 strike, say the core demand for women\u2019s work to be valued remains unmet 48 years on. Despite being considered a global leader on gender equality, topping the 2023 World Economic Forum\u2019s global gender gap rankings for the 14th consecutive year, in some professions Icelandic women still earn 21% less than men, and more than 40% of women have experienced gender-based or sexual violence.<\/p>\n<p>Strike organisers also say jobs traditionally associated with women, such as cleaning and caregiving, continue to be undervalued and underpaid. \u201cWe\u2019re talked about, Iceland is talked about, like it\u2019s an equality paradise,\u201d said Freyja Steingr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir, one of the strike organisers and communications director for BSRB, the Icelandic Federation for Public Workers. \u201cBut an equality paradise should not have a 21% wage gap and 40% of women experiencing gender-based or sexual violence in their lifetime. That\u2019s not what women around the world are striving for.\u201d Having the global reputation that it does, Iceland has a responsibility to \u201cmake sure we live up to those expectations\u201d, said Steingr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been other women\u2019s strikes since the first in 1975, Tuesday\u2019s marks the first full-day event. Operating under the slogan \u201cKallar\u00f0u \u00feetta jafnr\u00e9tti?\u201d (You call this equality?), it is the outcome of a grassroots movement and is being planned by about 40 different organisations. Women and non-binary people across the country are urged not to do any paid or unpaid work on Tuesday, including domestic tasks at home, \u201cto demonstrate the importance of their contribution to society\u201d. But some have already started preparing ahead of time to make life easier for men during their absence. \u201cThe third shift is real, women are going on strike but \u2018let\u2019s make sure that everything will work smoothly\u2019 is the mentality we\u2019re stuck in and we need to get out of,\u201d said Steingr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir. \u201cFor one day it\u2019s not our problem, so let\u2019s not try to make it easier for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least 25,000 people are expected to attend an event in Reykjav\u00edk city centre and many more will take part in 10 other events around the country \u2013 making it likely to be Iceland\u2019s biggest ever women\u2019s strike. Announcing her participation, Jakobsd\u00f3ttir said she expected the prime minister\u2019s office to stop working. \u201cFirst and foremost, I am showing solidarity with Icelandic women with this,\u201d she told mbl.is. Unlike the 1975 strike, Tuesday\u2019s event is for women and non-binary people. \u201cWe do this because we are all fighting the same system, we are all under the influence of the patriarchy, so we thought we should combine our fight,\u201d said Steingr\u00edmsd\u00f3ttir.<\/p>\n<p>The strike is calling for the gender pay gap to be closed by publishing the wages of workers in female-dominant professions, and for action against gender-based and sexual violence, with more focus on the perpetrators. Dr\u00edfa Sn\u00e6dal, who is on the executive committee of the women\u2019s strike and is a spokesperson for St\u00edgam\u00f3t, a counselling and education centre for sexual violence, said increased access to pornography among children had contributed to violence against women. Women\u2019s status in society and their monetary value in the workplace was also linked to sexual violence, she said. \u201cWe are now trying to connect the dots, saying that violence against women and undervalued work of women in the labour market are two sides of the same coin and have an effect on each other,\u201d she said. Despite the #MeToo movement and various others demanding equality in Iceland over recent years, she said women could not count on the justice system when it came to sexually violent crimes. \u201cThe patience of women has run out,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/23\/icelands-first-full-day-womens-strike-in-48-years-aims-to-close-pay-gap\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/icelands-first-full-day-womens-strike-in-48-years-aims-to-close-pay-gap\/\">Iceland\u2019s first full-day women\u2019s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[11944,10193,4888,606,607,608,568],"class_list":["post-117870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-fullday","tag-iceland","tag-strike","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}