A video report from the day
Summary of the day
Tens of thousands of women and non-binary people across Iceland, including the prime minister, stopped work today in the first strike of its kind in nearly half a century.
Large crowds gathered in Reykjavík and other towns across Iceland.
Schools, kindergartens and swimming pools were among the public services closed because of women striking, while some hospitals are on limited Christmas staffing.
Freyja Steingrímsdóttir, one of the organisers of the strike, said “there was a noticeable difference in traffic this morning, public services are very limited, a lot of stores are closed etc so the women’s strike is definitely widespread.”
Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the president of Iceland, said that women’s “activism for equality has changed Icelandic society for the better and continues to do so today”.
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