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Hello and welcome, women and non-binary people! So, are you all here for the coffee and kleinur? It’s amazing to be taking part in the biggest saumaklúbbur* of Iceland *a special kind of women’s society where women pretend to sew, but mostly gossip and console each other Today, I took the bus from Hafnarfjörður, just […]
Dear women and non-binary people It’s been amazing to witness the energy, all around the country, during the preparations of today, and it’s even more unbelievable to be able to stand amongst you today – and to feel this great support. We dare, we want and we can! We are here to demand actions! Actions […]
Women’s strike October 24th 2023! We demand that the undervaluing of female dominated occupations will be corrected! We demand that employers stop receiving a discount on women’s and non-binary people’s wages! We demand special action to raise the wages of the lowest paid women and non-binary people, because nobody should live in poverty! We demand […]
October 24th, 2020 We Want Equal Pay, Not Gratitude! On October 24th, 1975, women in Iceland left work to highlight the importance of women‘s contribution to society. Today, 45 years later, women‘s contributions to society are still not valued fairly and equally. The average pay of women in Iceland is still 25% less than the […]
October 24th, 2020 We Want Equal Pay, Not Gratitude! On October 24th, 1975, women in Iceland left work to highlight the importance of women‘s contribution to society. Today, 45 years later, women‘s contributions to society are still not valued fairly and equally. The average pay of women in Iceland is still 25% less than the […]
On October 24, 2016, women in Iceland left work at 2:38 to protest income inequality. This was not the first time women in Iceland have gone on strike to protest the gender pay gap. They also protested in 1975, 1985, 2005 and 2010. The average income of women in Iceland is only 70.3% of the […]
Áslaug Thelma Einarsdóttir, summary of speech given at Kvennafrí 2018, Reykjavík Áslaug Thelma Einarsdóttir, a campaigner against harassment in the workplace, began her speech by saying that it is easy to be angry on the internet, condemn others who are strangers. It is not so easy when those who wrong us are those who sit […]
