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Why Icelandic women are on strike

Why Icelandic women are on strike

You call this equality? How Iceland takes peaceful protesting to a whole other level, why pots and pans are political, plus the background on today's strike

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Helen Russell
Oct 24, 2023
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On a dark morning, where everything I own is covered in toothpaste and child 1 has just thrown egg at child 2 (‘Clean that up!’ ‘Why? The dog’s eating it!’ *weeps*) I’m interrupting normal service to urge all Nordic curious to look north. Just short of the arctic circle to be precise. Because today, the women of Iceland go on strike. Even the Prime Mini…

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