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Why are women in ‘feminist paradise’ Iceland striking?

Prime Minister Jakobsdottir told local media that she would not be coming into work, urging her colleagues in cabinet to do the same. [File: Markus Schreiber/AP Photo]

Tens of thousands of Icelandic women, including the country’s female prime minister, are taking to the streets on Tuesday in a nationwide protest against gender inequality and sexual violence.

Billed as the biggest women’s strike in decades, the walkout will see women drop all paid and unpaid work – including domestic tasks – for the day, waving banners reading “Kallarou þetta jafnretti?” (“You call this equality?”).

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