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11 months ago According to the Icelandic Teachers' Union, women make up the majority of teachers at every level of the educational system, including 94% of kindergarten teachers.
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11 months ago According to the Icelandic Teachers' Union, women make up the majority of teachers at every level of the educational system, including 94% of kindergarten teachers.
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11 months ago Around 80% of workers at the National University Hospital of Iceland, the biggest in the country, are women.
Tens of thousands of women in Iceland, including Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir, will refuse to work on Tuesday.
The "kvennafri", or women's day off, has been called in protest at the gender pay gap and gender-based violence.
Fields in which women form the majority of workers, such as healthcare and education, will be especially affected.
The planned walkout will mark the first full-day women's strike since 1975.
Women and non-binary people have been urged to refuse paid and unpaid work on Tuesday, including household chores.
"I will not work this day, as I expect all the women [in cabinet] will do as well," Iceland's PM Ms Jakobsdóttir told the mbl.is website.
Ms Jakobsdóttir said her government is looking into how female-dominated professions are valued, in comparison to fields traditionally dominated by men.