Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution · TURNING POINT ·
Icelandic women’s strike (1975)
On the Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution map as “Iceland’s Women’s Day Off”
24 Oct 1975 — About 90 per cent of Icelandic women stop work, at home and in offices, and some 25,000 rally in Reykjavík. Schools, shops and newspapers close. Five years later Iceland elects Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, the world’s first woman elected president.
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- UN Decade for Women and CEDAW (chapter 6 of Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution)
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- Protest and Change: Second-Wave Feminism and Tunisia, 1945–2015
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