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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-women-protest-strike-gender-pay-gap-leave-work-early-a7378801.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-women-protest-strike-gender-pay-gap-leave-work-early-a7378801.html</a><br>
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-24/iceland-s-prime-minister-joins-women-s-equal-pay-walk-out?__twitter_impression=true">https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-10-24/iceland-s-prime-minister-joins-women-s-equal-pay-walk-out?__twitter_impression=true</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:BWHaasGrotesk-75Bold-Web;letter-spacing:-.3pt">Iceland - Prime Minister Joins Women's Equal Pay Walk-Out<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Katrin Jakobsdottir</span> <span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:BWHaasGrotesk-56Italic-Web">
Photographer: Tatyana Zenkovich/AFP via Getty Images</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:2.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:BWHaasGrotesk-55Roman-Web;color:black">By
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ATTe_IG35_A/ragnhildur-sigurdardottir">
<span style="color:black">Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black">October 24, 2018 - Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir was among scores of Icelandic women who walked out of their workplaces
on Wednesday to protest against wage inequality and sexual harassment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black">The demonstration, organized by various unions and rights’ groups, saw women leave office desks and factory floors at
precisely 2:55 p.m. The time was chosen because it’s equivalent to them working for 74 percent of a standard 9-5 day, reflecting the fact that women earn on average 26 percent less than men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black">Iceland is a trailblazer when it comes to gender equality. It was the first country in the world to democratically elect
a female head of state, and in January introduced a landmark law forcing companies to demonstrate that they do not pay women less than men for doing the same job.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black">Yet women on the north Atlantic island still earn significantly less than men on average, according to Statistics Iceland
data. Moreover, the implementation of the equal pay legislation has proven more complex than initially anticipated, with the
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/terminal/PFRLDR6JTSEB" target="_blank" title="Deadline in Iceland’s Landmark Equal Pay Law Is Pushed Back">
deadline</a> for large companies to comply slipping by a year. Organizers also referenced the #MeToo movement, calling on businesses and on Jakobsdottir’s government to “change how they deal with misogyny, harassment and violence in the workplace.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black"><img border="0" width="399" height="373" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image005.png@01D47206.3108AF50" alt="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iutaWPtzdvqU/v0/-1x-1.png"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black">This is the sixth time Icelandic women have enacted a similar protest. The first of its kind, in 1975, provided the initial
push for the progress achieved to date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:PublicoText-Roman-Web;color:black">Writing in local newspaper Frettabladid ahead of Wednesday’s protest, Jakobsdottir said that while “much has been achieved
since 1975, Iceland has still “not been successful in eliminating the wage gap between men and women, and women in addition continue to take on the biggest proportion of unpaid work, such as childcare and housework.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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