{"id":10158,"date":"2016-11-07T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kvenrettindafelag.is\/?page_id=10158"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:40:51","slug":"womens-day-off","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kvenrettindafelag.is\/en\/resources\/womens-day-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Day Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Women in Iceland have gone on a strike six times to protest gender inequality and the gender pay gap.<\/p>\n

On October 24th, 1975<\/strong>, 90% of women in Iceland left work, to demonstrate the importance of women\u2018s contribution to society. This day was popularly called “kvennafr\u00ed”, or Women’s Day Off. In 1985<\/strong>, 25.000 women left their work again, to protest income inequality.<\/p>\n

In 2005<\/strong>, Icelandic women celebrated Women’s Day Off for the third time, and tens of thousands of women left work the minute they stopped getting paid, at 2:08 p.m. In 2010<\/strong> women in Iceland again left work, this time at 2:25 p.m.\u00a0In 2016<\/strong>, Icelandic women left work at 2.38 p.m., and in 2018<\/strong>, women left work at 2:55 p.m.<\/p>\n