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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Not important to make this it's own post but hexbear has defederated from jlai.lu due to an overwhelming amount of their users being reactionary, no efforts from their moderators or admins to address this and above all else not having any important communities. Apologies to any french speaking hexbear users that did use their instance.
Browsing /all the 3 main active languages I saw were english, portuguese, and french. Always sad to miss out on non anglo views (imo) but yeah their lefty channels were lukewarm at best, wasnt really aware of the issues but it seems like this was a good decision
It's the MC listening to all the outcast tribes and what they want to do to the wealthy nobles and clergy in Metaphor. Ngl it's kinda wild how unbelievably abstract finance has become. Like the concept of trading shares is already making the solid into air, but I'm gonna bring Marx back to life to show him my index funds in my fancy app where all the context I get is a green line or red line and the company who oversees it owns a significant chunk of the entire global financial market.
The virgin medieval yeomen dying if you feed them flaming hot Cheetos
vs.
The chad Marx combusting when you show him a quadruple leveraged Robinhood account
new bit of gold from a .world user, everyone gather round
Yes, I would fucking vote for Healthcare Hitler. I don’t care that you feel bad while doing it, i care about what the potential outcomes are. You get hitler either way, why would you not make a choice that leads to a better future?
Healthcare Hitler is giving you medical loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.
Running as healthcare hitler and then summarily executing everyone that votes for me
i deleted twitter a little bit ago, any
health updates i should be aware of? i still worry about the boy...Going on the myfico forums is so funny. Instead of quotes or jokes in their forum signatures they have little images of all their credit cards and little widgets for their total credit limit and credit scores by bureau. one guy even has the logo for a pretty exclusive credit union and the alt text says how long they've been a member
Dudes rock
I think I'm burning out. Feels like I've got a thousand things going on at work. And I don't usually have trouble checking spreadsheets even though its not something I have to often, but my head is spinning from all the info I'm trying to validate. Taking my break now and trying to see if I can gather myself and get organized to see if that helps.
I read Absolute Wonder Woman
spoiler
I really like how even tho the story is kinda edgy by having diana be raised in hell by one of her villains she still keeps her main traits and personally intead of just being an edgy reimagening
Also i like the god of war angle the comic starts with ww being against the will of the gods
Attention gamers! Partisans 1941 is on an 85% discount on Steam (5 bucks). I haven't played it yet but apparently you lead a squad of Red Army partisans and bash the fash so what's not to like?
love my husky but every time I pet her recently I get statically charged and zap the next thing I touch.
I'm sure they never tire of pumpkin spice latte jokes
I feel like sci-fi settings tend to forget that planets are, like... very big. A planet can have multiple different biomes. A planet can be occupied by many different factions in different locations. In so many sci-fi stories, you have planets that are basically just one location, you have desert planets, jungle planets, city planets and they never take advantage of the full scale of a planet.
Get this, they recently discovered a planet where there are deserts, jungles and cities! On the same celestial body!
my neighbor used he/him pronouns for his (late) large male dog. he uses it/its pronouns for the smaller female. I recently noticed him use it/its with my dog who is male, same size as the female, and is fairly masculine by both standards.
people be getting weird with pet genders. like it really doesn't matter but I think most people just make their pet cis (for lack of a better term) and stick with it, that's what I've always done but I like human names for pets. maybe with my next one I'll swap things around. he/him for a female and she/her for male.
