(Bloomberg) -- The prime minister joined other women in Iceland on a strike to call attention to the remaining inequalities in their society even though the country ranks highest globally in terms of ...

From classrooms to corporate offices to household cleaning, women across Iceland walked away from work − both paid and unpaid − Tuesday to demand improvements to unequal pay and gender-based violence.

HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland's prime minister and women across the volcanic island nation went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. Icelanders awoke to all ...

LONDON -- Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including the prime minister, participated in a walkout Tuesday to draw attention to the country's systematic gender pay gap and gender-based violence.

On paper, Iceland should be a haven for women. The high-income Nordic country has topped the World Economic Forum’s global gender equality rankings for 15 years in a row, and for the past half-century ...

Women across Iceland — including Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdóttir — went on strike Tuesday to protest against gender inequality and gender-based violence. Tens of thousands of Icelandic women and ...

It was eerily quiet on the suburban streets of Iceland on October 24, 2023. Schools weren’t open, swimming pools closed and several banks shut early. That was because the majority of Iceland’s women ...

People across Iceland gather during the women's strike in Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Arni Torfason) HUSAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Schools, shops, banks and Iceland’s famous ...