Iceland’s first full-day women’s strike in 48 years aims to close pay gap – Europe live

Tens of thousands of women and non-binary people across Iceland, including prime minister, are expected to stop work today

Tens of thousands of women and non-binary people across Iceland, including the prime minister, are expected to stop work – paid and unpaid – today in the first strike of its kind in nearly half a century.

Organisers hope the women’s strike – whose confirmed participants include fishing industry workers, teachers, nurses and the PM, Katrín Jakobsdóttir – will bring society to a standstill to draw attention to the country’s ongoing gender pay gap and widespread gender-based and sexual violence.