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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love my husky but every time I pet her recently I get statically charged and zap the next thing I touch.
Requesting woaw lenin emoji
And waow Marx
I feel like sci-fi settings tend to forget that planets are, like… very big. A planet can have multiple different biomes. A planet can be occupied by many different factions in different locations. In so many sci-fi stories, you have planets that are basically just one location, you have desert planets, jungle planets, city planets and they never take advantage of the full scale of a planet.
Get this, they recently discovered a planet where there are deserts, jungles and cities! On the same celestial body!
Crushposting:
We were having a quick lunch with some others, and after a few people left, it was just me, them, and 2 kind of creepy guys, by chance spread out as far as possible around the table. An agonizing minute of awkward silence later, I was just thinking, fuck, they must hate this, 3 guys creeping on them, and didn’t even dare to look at them, to avoid them feeling like the victim of a triple ogle, but then! They moved over to the seat next to me! “Hi!” they said happily, and the other 2 kind of got the hint and we split into 2 conversations and chatted on cheerily. I can’t think of a clearer way they could convey “I trust you” without literally saying it.
They do a little special interest infodumping, I do a little enthusiastic listening, because you guessed it, their interests are things I also find interesting.
back hurts
just want to find the perfect stretch to get the good pop
tbh that was an excellent sandwich
I am going to a psl event. What are some good psl jokes?
I actually want to bully my coworkers for being such bootlicking, no self-respect, tech bro nerd losers so much omg
my neighbor used he/him pronouns for his (late) large male dog. he uses it/its pronouns for the smaller female. I recently noticed him use it/its with my dog who is male, same size as the female, and is fairly masculine by both standards.
people be getting weird with pet genders. like it really doesn’t matter but I think most people just make their pet cis (for lack of a better term) and stick with it, that’s what I’ve always done but I like human names for pets. maybe with my next one I’ll swap things around. he/him for a female and she/her for male.
Scowling at the error message until the code fixes itself
when Dale Cooper says “the man who doesn’t love easily loves too much” i feel that shit in my bones
(strictly romantic love tho more generally i am a loving lil angel plz don’t forget it
)They should make a new FBI that only does Twin Peaks/X-Files FBI stuff
after the revolution that’s what they’ll become, comrade (they’ll ofc actually be abolished but we’ll keep the branding for a new supernatural detective agency b/c of pop cultural attachment)
Lol, Lmao, apparently Garand Thumb got caught on Chud Ashley Madison and is getting his ass divorced.
Get fucked bozo.
cursed, dick pain
Garand thumbing yourself, but your dick instead of your thumb
I thlammed my penith in the ejection port
Shout-out to Icelandic women, that strike sounds very based. In unrelated news I appear to be shitting myself to death
are you talking about the strike from 1 year ago
Read the mega title post, it’s good stuff
oh nice, I can’t read apparently
Why do they call it a restroom I’m fighting for my life in here
Rest in Peace Room
We can infer from the timelines that everyone in middle earth was stoned out of their minds at all times. Like Sauron will show up and The Wise will be like “damn we should look in to that” and four hundred years later Gandalf will go take a look but no one, including Sauron, will have done anything for four hundred years. Like if these people were playing a map game they’d all have an auto-clicker on the “pass turn” button while they were in the living room eating an entire large pizza and watching Cheechfarin and Chongriel movies.
It took 17 years for Gandalf to research the One Ring because Gondor’s archives aren’t using the Dewey Decimal System. Took like 40 to build Orthanc because the orcs, while vicious fighters, are also unionized and extremely strict when it comes to code violations. Don’t put your boiling oil next to the hot iron poker brazier, folks, that’s a fire hazard.
Frodo likes like six months to get out of the Shire after Gandalf tells him about the ring. His first reaction is like “damn that sounds like a lot, I need like two months to just chill so I can take it all in,” then he comes up with an overly-complicated plan to fool everyone that fools zero people.
Gonna
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for like a day probably.
Good luck
