On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.
The strike was planned by “The Women’s Congress”, which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.
During the work stoppage, also known as “Women’s Day Off”, 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.
Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who “represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland”, according to The Guardian.
In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.
The 1975 Women’s Strike also helped inspire the 2016 “Black Monday” anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the “International Women’s Strike”, single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.
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Saruman was a Democrat?
The professional musician I’m taking lessons with every now and then said I got a lot better and so much so that it was impressive. I need to keep going, and everytime I feel like a big loser who can’t do nothing correctly, I need to refer to that win.
When he says it, it means something.
What is
from?“Absence makes the heart grow fonder,” “familiarity breeds contempt” - pick one already!!!
as a creative writer, every now and again using “slop” as a shorthand for all/most media should/does bother me a little but otoh that shit is so fuckin funny and the grains of truth in it are too big for me to ever stop saying it, that and “treats” still never fail to tickle me
How is there this huge disconnect between the soc dems who see Biden and Kamala as immensely successful leaders making slow but meaningful if not measurable progress even with the deck stacked against them, to socialists who see they’re tirelessly strangling out any hope for the future? maybe it’s less a difference in perception, but the libs actually identify as beneficiaries of class structure and hegemony, therefore the brutality the democrats enable is welcomed by them? I wouldn’t even say it’s a subconcious appreciation for it, I would say it’s it’s charitableness on our part that we don’t perceive their statements of support as the violent declarations they are. It can’t be unusual therefore that “libs get scratched” (i.e. , they read something that annoys them) and the resulting off the cuff tirade is that it needs to be solved by a militia mowing down protestors.
I think you’re right. Democrats, especially Harris, only talk about helping the ‘middle class’. She has NEVER spoken about a working class, or people in poverty (beyond helping them become ‘middle class’), because you need to be at least ‘middle class’ to benefit from the various oppressive hierarchies
wish terrifier 3 and the substance would hit streaming already the days of halloween slop are drawing to a close and i crave some novelty (but don’t want to leave my warm moist cave for the thee-ayter where other human beings exist alongside me in the same space but not in true communion)
the thee-ayter
also that shit is fr*ggin expensive!!
It’s the MC listening to all the outcast tribes and what they want to do to the wealthy nobles and clergy in Metaphor. Going on the myfico forums is so funny. Instead of quotes or jokes in their forum signatures they have little images of all their credit cards and little widgets for their total credit limit and credit scores by bureau. one guy even has the logo for a pretty exclusive credit union and the alt text says how long they’ve been a member
Dudes rock
new bit of gold from a .world user, everyone gather round
Yes, I would fucking vote for Healthcare Hitler. I don’t care that you feel bad while doing it, i care about what the potential outcomes are. You get hitler either way, why would you not make a choice that leads to a better future?
Running as healthcare hitler and then summarily executing everyone that votes for me
Healthcare Hitler is giving you medical loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities.
i deleted twitter a little bit ago, any
health updates i should be aware of? i still worry about the boy…Ngl it’s kinda wild how unbelievably abstract finance has become. Like the concept of trading shares is already making the solid into air, but I’m gonna bring Marx back to life to show him my index funds in my fancy app where all the context I get is a green line or red line and the company who oversees it owns a significant chunk of the entire global financial market.
The virgin medieval yeomen dying if you feed them flaming hot Cheetos
vs.
The chad Marx combusting when you show him a quadruple leveraged Robinhood account
Marx would have lost all of Fred’s money trading options
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I think I’m burning out. Feels like I’ve got a thousand things going on at work. And I don’t usually have trouble checking spreadsheets even though its not something I have to often, but my head is spinning from all the info I’m trying to validate. Taking my break now and trying to see if I can gather myself and get organized to see if that helps.
Attention gamers! Partisans 1941 is on an 85% discount on Steam (5 bucks). I haven’t played it yet but apparently you lead a squad of Red Army partisans and bash the fash so what’s not to like?
