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Icelandic women’s strike (1975)
On the Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution map as “Iceland’s Women’s Day Off”
24 Oct 1975 — Icelandic women stop work both at home and in offices: about 90 per cent take part, and some 25,000 rally in Reykjavík. Schools, shops and newspapers close. Five years later Iceland elects Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the world’s first woman elected president.
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