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Icelandic women's strike
In 1975, 90% of Iceland’s women took part in a nationwide protest over inequality and forced normal life to an abrupt halt.
In October 1975, 90% of women in Iceland took part in a nationwide protest over inequality.
Factories and banks were forced to close and men were left holding the children as 25,000 women took to the streets.
In 2015, VigdΓs FinnbogadΓ³ttir, later Iceland's first female president, told Kirstie Brewer about the impact of that day.
(Photo: Women take to the streets. Credit: The Icelandic Women's History Archives)
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