Close doesn’t cut it: What we can learn from Iceland’s pay parity strike

For 14 years running, Iceland has topped the charts on gender balance. That’s not to say the Nordic nation has achieved full gender parity but that, by measure of the World Economic Forum, its gender gap is more than 90% closed. And it’s the only country in the Global Gender Gap Index to have achieved as much. The first Kvennafri or ‘Women’s Day Off’ was held in 1975. This year, on the anniversary of that original event, women across Iceland went on strike, including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir. “We have not yet reached our goals of full gender equality and…

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