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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talking about my dad, and more heavy things like grief about my mom or my dog cw: alcoholism, death/grief
so yesterday I only slept like three hours, and that was coming off a day when I didn't sleep at all, just staying up an entire day. and then today I only slept four-five hours. like I just woke up not too long ago. anyways while doing that whole sleep deprivation stuff, yesterday. I think that was yesterday? anyways, I noticed my dad only slept like four hours. hardly sleeping like me. but like he woke up at 3am. and I guess he been up all day today. I dunno if he went to sleep during the time I was asleep for a few hours.
but guess what! he been drinking since 3am of yesterday! and I know like, what a week or two ago? he did try to be sober. but he told me that he wanted to started to drinking and I told him that just even having one just gonna cause him to spiral. and here we are now. again. for like. I don't know how many times anymore.
I should be happy that he is still at least trying at times. Of course that only happen when I confronted him two years ago that resulted in him kicking me out for a week or two. That was fun. He still hasn't said sorry for that either, especially when it stemmed from an argument that he caused.
besides that to get into something else. I can't stop thinking again, about my dog that died last month. I legitimately can't stop thinking of having to wrap his body in a blanket and carry him. I can't stop thinking about his dead body. I can't stop of that day. and it makes me think of last year when my mom died when I saw her dead. and I can't get those moments out of my head.
and I don't know who to talk about this to anyone honestly. I don't want to bother my friends with this. Their dealing with their own issues and I am not going to burden them, especially after having a past friend suddenly cut off things with me and accuse me of dragging people down. That hurts and that still haunts me. And it makes it more harder than ever to just talk to people about things. Because then I start questioning "Wait, maybe I'm just being extremely negative and no one wants to hear this."
and I can't talk to my dad about this. Since he's drinking. And when he drinking a ton, there no support from him. If anything, it's the other way around where I need to support him. Get/make him food if he feels like eating, remind him to drink water, see if he's doing alright. Or hear his troubles about how he having trouble sleeping while I'm on three hours of sleep myself.
Just fuck, sometimes I wish I could get away from everything, but where is there to go?
grief, alcoholism
I'm really sorry you have to deal with all that. I lost a pet last year and still think about her a lot and I have a similar dad from what I've gathered and yeah, it's really fucking rough and you have a ton of sympathy from me for whatever that's worth
Idk what I could do to help you, but I know a lot about alcoholism and dealing with an alcoholic dad so if there's anything I can help with advice or something please don't hesitate to reach out for anything, even if it's just to vent and sorry if this comes across as patronizing or something because tone can be tough over text but I'm in a similar boat and know how rough it can be
I'm not exactly what sure to say. And sorry you're in a similar situation, it is rough.
you're not being patronizing. Thanks for the offer, except it most likely I most likely won't. Since it feels like I need to find in person stuff around where I live. I don't know. And if it's not that, it just sort of, really not wanting to be a burden, and I know that kind of feels like hurting myself inadvertly, but I really don't want to bother people too much with this stuff. But then again, I do vent on here a lot on here, or sometimes bring some of this stuff up on here, and someone else has offered to let me reach out to on here to in the past, but it just again. That obstacle of not wanting to be a bother vs needing to talk about stuff
And another part of me just doesn't want to keep talking about these things anymore because sometimes, it just feels like it's get old for others. Since like it just feels like there's always something. like for example, besides all the alcohol or grief stuff with my mom or my dog
domestic stuff
my mental health is not the best that I also write on here at times, and if it's not that. it's other things like with one of my siblings, mainly her s.o, threatening my dad like four-five months ago. Which is the second time, last time being last year when my mom was ill. but my dad didn't really deserve that. and for some reason this bothers me sometimes.
it's just, always something else, and feels like it's gets old. since it feels like im not doing enough to handle these things on my own, and that I just need to somehow handle it. but on the opposite end, is I can't either at times. but besides that just another part just sort of tired of all of this. tired of being in this same spot, same point. I need to sleep.
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Big same
I've been getting better the last couple months getting my personal shit together more but my circumstances haven't really improved materially and the family shit for me is slowly getting worse if anything
Completely understand, I've shut down about similar things to irl people for years at a time about stuff to the point where they've been shocked when something about how rough it's gotten at times slips out
Hope you get some well deserved quality sleep